Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Rockenbach, Bettina; Sadrieh, … - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 8 (2010) 4, pp. 817-837
We present a field experiment to assess the effect of own and peer wage variations on actual work effort of employees with hourly wages. Work effort neither reacts to an increase of the own wage, nor to a positive or negative peer comparison. This result seems at odds with numerous laboratory...
