• Title of article

    Whatʹs wrong with forced wage compression? The fair wage hypothesis redux

  • Author/Authors

    Michelle Alexopoulos، نويسنده , , Jon Cohen، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2004
  • Pages
    8
  • From page
    391
  • To page
    398
  • Abstract
    In this note we examine a modified version of Akerlof and Yellenʹs [Q. J. Econ. 105 (1990) 255] fair wage hypothesis where individuals care about the wages of workers above as well as below them in the wage distribution. We find that this modified fair wage model is consistent with existing evidence about the reaction of workers and firms to forced wage compression from below.
  • Keywords
    Efficiency wages , fairness , Wage compression
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Serial Year
    2004
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Record number

    435436