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Pay Compression Effects

Pay Compression Effects is a phenomenon in compensation systems where the pay disparities between employees narrow unexpectedly, typically due to external market pressures or internal pay adjustments, thereby reducing the relative wage differences between lower- and higher-performing or tenured workers.

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4.2K

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85

Authors

58

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2017–2026

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Variants

Salary CompressionWage Compression

Parents

Publications

48

Pay Equality and Industrial Politics

Edward P. Lazear · Journal of Political Economy · 1989 · 1.2K citations

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Pay dispersion and workforce performance: moderating effects of incentives and interdependence

Jason D. Shaw, Nina Gupta, John E. Delery · Strategic Management Journal · 2002 · 380 citations · Full text

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The Morale Effects of Pay Inequality*

Emily Breza, Supreet Kaur, Yogita Shamdasani · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 2017 · 364 citations

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Does Pay Inequality Affect Worker Effort? Experimental Evidence

Gary Charness, Peter Kuhn · Journal of Labor Economics · 2007 · 234 citations

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Personnel Economics: Past Lessons and Future Directions Presidential Address to the Society of Labor Economists, San Francisco, May 1, 1998

Edward P. Lazear · Journal of Labor Economics · 1999 · 225 citations

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Authors

85

  1. GC
    Gary Charness

    University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

    3 publications · 286 citations

    3

    h-index

  2. EP
    Edward P. Lazear

    Stanford University, United States

    2 publications · 1.5K citations

    2

    h-index

  3. PE
    Per‐Anders Edin

    Uppsala University, Sweden

    2 publications · 122 citations

    2

    h-index

  4. DR
    Dominique Rouziès

    HEC Paris, France

    2 publications · 79 citations

    2

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  5. DT
    Domenico Tabasso

    IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Germany

    2 publications · 44 citations

    2

    h-index

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Institutions

58

  1. IZA - Institute of Labor Economics

    Bonn, Germany

    5 h-index

    8 publications

    372 citations

  2. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Cambridge, United States

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    1K citations

  3. Ifo Institute for Economic Research

    Munich, Germany

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    86 citations

  4. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    401 citations

  5. University of California, Santa Barbara

    Santa Barbara, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    540 citations

  6. University of Essex

    Colchester, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    63 citations

  7. University of Geneva

    Geneva, Switzerland

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    44 citations

  8. University of Oslo

    Oslo, Norway

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    129 citations

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Venues

  1. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 6 publications · 177 citations

    6

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  2. Public Personnel Management

    PPM · 4 publications · 60 citations

    4

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  3. Journal of Labor Economics

    JOLE · 3 publications · 557 citations

    3

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  4. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Repository · 3 publications · 243 citations

    3

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  5. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

    Repository · 2 publications · 26 citations

    2

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