Wage Differentials and Workers’ Effort: Experimental Evidence from Uganda

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dc.contributor.authorSseruyange, John
dc.contributor.authorBulte, Erwin
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-16T12:28:15Z
dc.date.available2022-12-16T12:28:15Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractWe organize a real-effort field experiment with varying piece rates to assess the impact of wages and social comparisons on productivity. In addition to analyzing how piece rates and social comparisons affect productivity during the ‘paid stage’ of the experiment, we also consider how they affect effort supply during a voluntary and unpaid follow-up task. Our main results are that effort supply is relatively unresponsive to variation in own earnings, but responds strongly to pay inequality. While we obtain weak support for the hypothesis that positive social comparisons invite extra effort during paid stages of the experiment, our most important finding is that social comparisons matter for voluntary tasks when shirking is cheap. Specifically, positive social comparisons positively affect productivity during unpaid tasks, and negative comparisons have the opposite impact.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSseruyange, John, and Erwin Bulte. 'Wage Differentials and Workers’ Effort: Experimental Evidence from Uganda', Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, vol. 82/no. 3, (2020), pp. 647-668.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0305-9049
dc.identifier.issnE 1468-0084
dc.identifier.urihttps://nru.uncst.go.ug/handle/123456789/6348
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherWiley Subscription Services, Incen_US
dc.subjectCompensation and benefits, Development Economics, Earnings , Experiments , Inequality, Ontwikkelingseconomie , Positive affect, Productivity, Unpaid Wage, differential Wages & salaries WASS Workersen_US
dc.titleWage Differentials and Workers’ Effort: Experimental Evidence from Ugandaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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