in our experiment were more likely to compress wages when wages became public information. Profits were not significantly … reduced by a requirement to make wages public. Overall, our results seem to weaken the case that either wage secrecy or wage …

; experimental study ; envy ; reciprocity ; pay secrecy …

Pay secrecy is often justified on the ground of concerns about the detrimental consequences of intra-firm pay … giftexchange game laboratory experiment where an employer is matched with two symmetric employees. We compare effort choices made … by employees in a 'pay secrecy' treatment and in two 'public wages' treatments where employees are informed of the wage …

experiment were more likely to compress wages when wages became public information. Profits were not significantly reduced by a … requirement to make wages public. Overall, our results seem to weaken the case that either wage secrecy or wage compression is a …

of wage inequality. -- wage dispersion ; effort ; experiment ; gift-exchange …