The majority of the chapters in this book speak primarily to the effects of pay on people's attitudes and behaviors. However, information about people's reactions to pay have little practical importance to employers unless employers have discretion in setting pay and developing pay policies. As indicated elsewhere in this volume (see Chapters Five, Six, and Seven), employers not only have such ...

Research on employers’ hiring discrimination is limited by the unlawfulness of such activity. Consequently, researchers have focused on the intention to hire. Instead, we rely on a virtual labour market, the Fantasy Football Premier League, where employers can freely exercise their taste for racial discrimination in terms of hiring and firing. The setting allows us to eliminate co-worker, consu...