Doctoral Dissertation Research: Pay-Setting for New Hires

博士论文研究：新员工的薪酬设置

基本信息

批准号：
1904063
负责人：
Frank Dobbin
金额：
$ 1.59万
依托单位：
Harvard University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2019
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2019-07-01 至 2021-06-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1904063&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Doctoral Dissertation Research Pay Setting

项目摘要

This project investigates the effects of salary history bans on firm practices and investigates cultural understandings about pay. Some recent legislation has enacted salary history bans, that is, has outlawed the practice of basing the salary offered a job candidate on the candidate's past salary. Using interviews, ethnography, and survey experiments, this project will document how firm practices may have altered due to such bans and will elaborate more generally how pay is perceived and understood. Results will identify how firm-level practices may interact with widely shared cultural ideas to reproduce or diminish pay differences following this policy change. These findings will contribute to stakeholder and public understanding of important economic patterns and how they may be ameliorated.This research uses multiple methods, including interviews with 60 experts and practitioners, ethnographic observation inside organizations, and a survey experiment. The interviews will provide insight into firm-level practices, how these practices may be changing in response to the salary history ban, and shared understandings about pay across industries and occupations. Ethnographic observation inside organizations will validate self-reports against practices in the field and will document variations across roles within a given firm. The survey experiment will be used to test hypotheses derived from fieldwork regarding perceptions of job candidates and starting pay. By employing multiple methods to gain insight into pay-setting, this research will contribute to the literature on pay differences and, more broadly, the cultural ideas that underpin market relations.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目调查了薪资历史禁令对公司实践的影响，并调查了对薪资的文化理解。最近的一些立法颁布了工资历史禁令，即禁止根据候选人过去的工资向候选人提供工资的做法。通过访谈、民族志和调查实验，该项目将记录企业的做法可能因此类禁令而发生的变化，并将更广泛地阐述如何看待和理解薪酬。结果将确定公司层面的实践如何与广泛共享的文化理念相互作用，以重现或缩小政策变化后的薪酬差异。这些发现将有助于利益相关者和公众了解重要的经济模式以及如何改善这些模式。这项研究采用了多种方法，包括采访 60 名专家和从业者、组织内部的民族志观察以及调查实验。访谈将深入了解公司层面的做法、这些做法可能如何因薪资历史禁令而发生变化，以及对跨行业和职业薪资的共同理解。组织内部的民族志观察将根据现场实践验证自我报告，并记录特定公司内不同角色的差异。该调查实验将用于检验根据实地工作得出的关于求职者和起薪看法的假设。通过采用多种方法来深入了解薪酬设定，这项研究将为有关薪酬差异的文献做出贡献，更广泛地，为支撑市场关系的文化理念做出贡献。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过评估被认为值得支持利用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准。