Do Workers Prefer Increasing Wage Profiles?
通过调查数据挑战了劳动供给分析中工人偏好递减工资曲线的隐含假设，并检验了偏好递增工资的几种解释，包括工资的特殊性、消费变化对效用的影响以及非理性行为。
The authors present survey data challenging the assumption implicit in analyses of labor supply that, all else being equal, workers prefer declining over increasing wage profiles. The authors test several explanations for their results, including that (1) there is something special about wages (e.g., their association with productivity), as opposed to other types of payments, that induces the preference for increasing wages; (2) utility depends not only on absolute levels of consumption, but also on changes in consumption over time; and (3) respondents who prefer increasing wage profiles are irrational and would change their behavior if the rationale for preferring declining wages were explained. Copyright 1991 by University of Chicago Press.