The amount and type of pay information made available by organizations to employees and
between employees can have important effects on employee attitudes and behaviors as well …

Countries around the world are enacting pay transparency policies to combat pay
discrimination. Since 2000, 71 percent of OECD countries have done so. Most are enacting …

Economic engineering is the science of designing real-world institutions and mechanisms
that align individual incentives and behavior with the underlying goals. This paper discusses …

We survey directors and investors on the objectives, constraints, and determinants of CEO
pay. We find that directors face constraints beyond participation and incentives, and that pay …

The research in this article is focused on formal performance appraisals (PA), one of the
most important human resource management practices in firms. In detail, the study analyzes …

The presence of workers who reciprocate higher wages with greater effort can have
important consequences for firms and labor markets. Knowledge about the extent and …

Does the use of Internet for professional purposes foster employees' job satisfaction? We
focus on six main work characteristics–income, education, occupation type, autonomy, time …

A real-effort experiment is investigated in which supervisors have to rate the performance of
individual workers who in turn receive a bonus payment based on these ratings. We …

Previous studies show that group risk taking can be more conservative than individual risk
taking. Two common, but untested reasons for this greater caution are the influence of social …

In a large-scale field study of marathon runners, we test whether goals act as reference
points in shaping the valuation of outcomes. Theories of reference-dependent preferences …