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The Role of Non-Interference in Preferences for Autonomy in Pay
27 Pages Posted: 8 Feb 2020 Last revised: 18 Nov 2024
Date Written: January 7, 2020
Abstract
Recent literature points to individuals having preferences for autonomy, which has two dimensions. The first is an individual’s ability to influence their own outcomes. The second is enjoying a certain degree of non-interference from others. In this paper, we focus on the non-interference in pay. We show that most subjects are unwilling to pay to reduce interference from others when this reduction has no instrumental value. That is, they do not have intrinsic preferences for non-interference. However, those who do show such preferences are willing to sacrifice a meaningful part of their pay to reduce non-interference.
Keywords: Independence, freedom, non-interference, authority, control, Becker-DeGroot-Marschak mechanism, laboratory experiment
JEL Classification: C91, D01, D91, M54
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Pikulina, Elena and Tergiman, Chloe,
The Role of Non-Interference in Preferences for Autonomy in Pay
(January 7, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3515050 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3515050
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