characteristics. Other than risk of death, however, no job characteristics have consistently been found to affect wages, likely … wage increases necessary to compensate workers for worse job disamenities are substantial, supporting the theory …

When wages are transparent, sales agents may compare their pay with that of their peers and experience positive or …

We study worker and firm behavior in an efficiency-wage environment where co-workers' wages may potentially influence a … worker's effort. Theoretically, we show that an increase in workers' responsiveness to co-workers' wages should lead profit …-maximizing firms to compress wages under quite general conditions. Our laboratory experiments, on the other hand, show that --while …

percent and 1 percent of the within-firm wage distribution rise substantially. Instead, the effect on average wages is small …