'Wages, Fairness, and Productivity'
From Economists View
January 31, 2013 - 1:50pm
Chris Dillow: Wages, fairness & productivity: Do higher wages motivate workers to work harder? A recent experiment conducted on Swiss newspaper distributors suggests the answer's yes, but only partially so: Workers who perceive being underpaid at the base wage increase...
January 31, 2013 - 1:50pm
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