Performance pay or redistribution? Cultural differences in just-world beliefs and preferences for wage inequality

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 130, Issue , 2015, Pages 160-170

  Frank, Douglas H ^a   Wertenbroch, Klaus ^b   Maddux, William W ^b  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^b INSEAD   (France)

Author keywords

Compensation systems; Culture; Incentives; Income inequality; Just world beliefs; Redistribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938215218     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2015.04.001     Document Type: Article

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