Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5072477 | Games and Economic Behavior | 2009 | 19 Pages |
Abstract
Following recent empirical evidence which indicates the importance of rank for the determination of workers' wellbeing, this paper introduces status seeking preferences in the form of rank-dependent utility functions into a moral-hazard framework with one firm and multiple workers, but no correlation in production. We show that workers' concern for the rank of their wage in the firm's wage distribution induces the firm to offer discriminatory wage contracts when its aim is to induce all workers to expend effort.
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Authors
Amrita Dhillon, Alexander Herzog-Stein,