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研討日期 |
2012年3月24日10:30
~ 13:00 |
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研討地點 |
台大社會科學院26教室 |
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討論題目 |
題目 |
作者 |
文獻出處 |
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Social comparisons and the firm’s profits: An advantage of rewarding equal workers unequally |
Oded Stark Agnieszka Dorn Yong Wang |
Working paper |
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報告人 |
Yong Wang |
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參加人員 |
汪勇、黃鴻、梁文榮、陳宏易、吳芝文、王光正、林燕淑、彭正浩、高國峯、鍾暳陵、林晏如、陳金盛、曾靜枝、王佳琪、丁虹仁、吳宜謙、周冰瑤、蔡明芳、張志瑋、呂得成、吳定軒、徐靖、施姵全 |
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摘要 |
This paper analyzes the impact
of social comparisons on a firm’s profits and an optimal incentive
structure. When workers are equally productive, the differences in how they
are treated can arise from a firm’s profit-maximizing decisions rather than
from differences in
workers’ productivity or employers’ preferences. When a worker
derives (dis)utility not only from the amount of
effort he puts in but also from comparing his earnings unfavorably with those of
his coworkers, his response to
his sense of “relative deprivation” is to increase his level of effort. In the
presence of such social comparisons, the firm can increase its profits by
offering different contracts to equally productive workers. |
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