depends on the wages paid to coworkers. Workers were assigned to teams of two, performed identical individual tasks, and … received the same performance - independent hourly wage. Cutting both team members' wages caused a substantial decrease in … twice as large as the individual performance decrease when both workers' wages were cut. This finding indicates that social …

to the conventional view that labor costs are procyclical. Using BLS establishment-job data, we find that even real wages …, the main focus of prior literature, have become countercyclical. Benefit expenditures are less rigid than nominal wages …

quantile regression methods to analyse the distribution of wages across sectors. We show that the public-private (hourly) wage …

for observed characteristics and sample selection, for men, public administration wages are higher than private sector … wages except at the university level where the wages are at par. State owned enterprise wages for men are higher than … private sector wages. Similar results are obtained for women. Further, while wages of men and women are at parity in the …