Wage transparency and performance: A real-effort experiment

Economics Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 236-238

  Greiner, Ben ^a   Ockenfels, Axel ^b   Werner, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Labor market experiments; Real effort; Social comparison; Wage schemes

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953676881     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2011.02.015     Document Type: Article

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