Wage transparency and performance: A real-effort experiment

Ben Greiner; Axel Ockenfels; Peter Werner

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2011.02.015

Wage transparency and performance: A real-effort experiment

Ben Greiner
, Axel Ockenfels
, Peter Werner

Department of Strategy and Innovation

Publication: Scientific journal › Journal article › peer-review

Abstract

Without transparency about peer wages in a real effort experiment, a change of wages does not affect performance. With transparency, however, higher paid workers tend to work more accurately, and lower paid workers shirk more under piece rates.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	236 - 238
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	111
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2011.02.015
Publication status	Published - 2011

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