Does wage rank affect employees' well-being?

被引：201
作者：
Brown, Gordon D. A. [1 ]
Gardner, Jonathan
Oswald, Andrew J.
Qian, Jing
机构：
[1] Univ Warwick, Dept Psychol, Coventry CV4 7AL, W Midlands, England
来源：
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS | 2008年 / 47卷 / 03期
基金：
英国经济与社会研究理事会;
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D O I：
10.1111/j.1468-232X.2008.00525.x
中图分类号：
F24 [劳动经济];
学科分类号：
020106 ; 020207 ; 1202 ; 120202 ;
摘要：
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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页数：35
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