Does Wage Rank Affect Employees' Well-being? Forthcoming in Industrial Relations Does Wage Rank Affect Employees' Well-being?
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How do workers make wage comparisons? Both an experimental study and an analysis of 16,000 British employees are reported. Satisfaction and well-being levels are shown to depend on more than simple relative pay. They depend upon the ordinal rank of an individual’s wage within a comparison group. ‘Rank’ itself thus seems to matter to human beings. Moreover, consistent with psychological theory, quits in a workplace are correlated with pay distribution skewness. JEL codes: J3; J28; I31.
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Does Wage Rank Affect Employees’ Well-being? September 2007 Forthcoming in Industrial Relations
How do workers make wage comparisons? Both an experimental study and an analysis of 16,000 British employees are reported. Satisfaction and well-being levels are shown to depend on more than simple relative pay. They depend upon the ordinal rank of an individual’s wage within a comparison group. ‘Rank’ itself thus seems to matter to human beings. Moreover, consistent with psychological theory, ...
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