Do Employees Care About Their Relative Position? Behavioural Evidence Focusing on Performance
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- Benno Torgler & Markus Schaffner & Sascha L. Schmidt & Bruno S. Frey, 2008. "Do Employees Care about their Relative Position? Behavioural Evidence Focusing on Performance," CREMA Working Paper Series 2008-12, Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA).
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Relative income; positional concerns; envy; social comparison; relative derivation; performance;JEL classification:
- D00 - Microeconomics - - General - - - General
- D60 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - General
- L83 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Sports; Gambling; Restaurants; Recreation; Tourism
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ALL-2008-06-27 (All new papers)
- NEP-LAB-2008-06-27 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LTV-2008-06-27 (Unemployment, Inequality & Poverty)
- NEP-SOC-2008-06-27 (Social Norms & Social Capital)
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