F Barigozzi, E Manna - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020 - Elsevier
We study how envy affects screening contracts offered to employees who care about the mission of the organisation and differ in ability, which is their private information. We show …
M Caserta, L Ferrante, F Reito - The BE Journal of Theoretical …, 2021 - degruyter.com
We present a simple principal-agent model with an employer and two types of employees/workers, low and high skilled. Low-skilled workers are envious of their high …
A Tampieri - Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper studies how the decision to attend university may affect job and marital satisfaction. We propose a theoretical model with educational assortative matching, where …
There is strong evidence that employees' motivation and incentives in the workplace are affected by vertical pay comparisons. In a stylized Cournot duopoly model with firm–specific …
B Bental, J Kragl - Available at SSRN 4469660, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
In many countries, collective agreements tend to equalize wages across workers in the same sector and job. We analyze the impact of imposing wage equality on incentive …
R Distefano - Available at SSRN 4739144, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
In a simple agency model of the labor market, we examine how fairness concerns affect labor contracts when workers have different and unobservable abilities. In the framework …