This article introduces status as reflecting an agent's claim to recognition in her work. This is a scarce resource: increasing an agent's status requires that another agent's status be decreased. Higher-status agents are more willing to exert effort in exchange for money; better-paid agents...

The paper introduces status as reflecting an agent's claim to recognition in her work. It is a scarce resource: increasing an agent's status requires that another agent's status is decreased. Higher status agents are more willing to exert effort in exchange for money; better-paid agents would...

We introduce, in a multiple agents moral hazard setting, a status variable which reflects an agent's claim to social recognition in her work. Status is a scarce resource so that increasing an agent's status requires that another agent's status is decreased. High status agents are more willing to...