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Does Wage Rank Affect Employees’ Well‐being?

BROWN, GORDON D. A., GARDNER, JONATHAN, OSWALD, ANDREW J., QIAN, JING·2008·Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society

Abstract

How do workers make wage comparisons? Both an experimental study and an analysis of 16,000 British employees are reported. Satisfaction and well‐being levels are shown to depend on more than simple relative pay. They depend upon the ordinal rank of an individual's wage within a comparison group. “Rank” itself thus seems to matter to human beings. Moreover, consistent with psychological theory, quits in a workplace are correlated with pay distribution skewness.

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Authors
BROWN, G. D. A., GARDNER, J., OSWALD, A. J., & QIAN, J.
Venue
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2008-05-21
Volume
47
Issue
3
Pages
355-389
ISSN
  • 0019-8676 (ISSN-L)
  • 1468-232X
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W2165528264
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376
References
5
FWCI
47.78
Type
journal article
Language
en
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BROWN, G. D. A., GARDNER, J., OSWALD, A. J., & QIAN, J. (2008). Does Wage Rank Affect Employees’ Well‐being? Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-232x.2008.00525.x

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