Calendrier du 11 mai 2021
Virtual Development Economics Seminar
Du 11/05/2021 de 17:00 à 18:15
ATKIN David (MIT& CPER)
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PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 11/05/2021 de 16:00 à 17:00
RICHARD Marion (PSE)
Transitions into Poverty and Subjective Well-Being
Paris Trade Seminar
Du 11/05/2021 de 14:30 à 16:00
Using Zoom
BONFIGLIONI Alessandra (Queen Mary University of London)
Robots, Offshoring and Welfare
écrit avec Rosario Crino, Gino Gancia and Ioannis Papadakis
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 11/05/2021 de 12:30 à 13:30
SANTINI Paolo ()
Team up against inequality: the effect of peer salaries on academic collaborations
écrit avec *
Pay transparency has emerged as an effective tool to reduce inequalities, but it might carry some unintended consequences. Using comprehensive data on the salary and the academic production of economic faculties in the US, I investigate the effect of pay transparency on the endogenous probability of collaborating. Exploiting exogenous shocks on the information of coworkers’ pay, I show that exposing pay differences does harm team formation, but only when the differences in remuneration are not justified by underlying productivity differences or when the unjustified gaps cannot be closed by a change in the compensation policy. The effect is sizeable: a 100K $ difference, which represents the inter-quantile difference in compensations, reduces the probability of two authors co-writing a paper by 18 %. These findings are consistent with the idea that relative income concerns have broad social and labor market implications, particularly on cohesion, and that hence exposing inequalities might come at a cost.