Social comparison and performance: Experimental evidence on the fair wage-effort hypothesis

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 531-543

  Gächter, Simon ^a,b,c   Thöni, Christian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b CESIFO   (Germany)

^c IZA ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fair wage effort hypothesis; Gift exchange; Horizontal fairness; Individual heterogeneity; Labor market experiments; Strategy method; Wage comparison; Wage discrimination

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649687534     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2010.08.008     Document Type: Article

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