This paper considers the effect of status or relative income on work effort combining experimental evidence from a gift …. The individual's rank in the income distribution is a stronger determinant of effort than others' average income …: those who received higher income offers or had higher income rank in the past exert lower levels of effort for a given …

This paper considers the effect of status or relative income on work effort combining experimental evidence from a gift …. The individual's rank in the income distribution is a stronger determinant of effort than others' average income …: those who received higher income offers or had higher income rank in the past exert lower levels of effort for a given …

The authors test the hypothesis that individual effort on the job depends both on one's own income and on the … individual's position in the relevant income distribution. Combining experimental evidence from a gift-exchange game with multi …-country ISSP survey data, they analyze the extent to which relative income affects an individual's effort, finding that an …

Leading scholars from around the world examine the social stratification of arts and culture in contemporary society …

This paper considers the effect of status or relative income on work effort combining experimental evidence from a gift …. The individual's rank in the income distribution is a stronger determinant of effort than others' average income …: those who received higher income offers or had higher income rank in the past exert lower levels of effort for a given …