Clark, Andrew; Masclet, Davis; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2006
datasets. The individual’s rank in the income distribution has a more powerful effect on effort than does others’ average … income rank, the width of the relevant income distribution matters, with effort increasing in the distance from the bottom of … or had higher income rank in the past exert lower levels of effort for a given current income …