Social comparisons in wage delegation: experimental evidence
实验研究企业选择或委托工人决定工资时，社会比较如何影响工人绩效，发现工资和决策权的比较都会起作用，且陈述努力与实际任务结果一致。
Abstract We make two main contributions in this article. We examine whether social comparisons affects workers’ performance when a firm can choose workers’ wages or let them choose their own. Firms can delegate the wage decision to neither, one or both workers in the firm. We vary the information workers receive, finding that social comparisons concerning both wages and decision rights affect workers’ performance. Our second contribution is methodological. We find that our treatment effects are present with both stated effort and a real-effort task, which suggests that both approaches may yield similar results in labor experiments.