%0 Report %A Strobl, Eric %A Walsh, Frank %T Efficiency Wages and Effort: Are Hard Jobs Better? %D 2002 %8 2002 Dec %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) %C Bonn %7 IZA Discussion Paper %N 661 %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp661 %X Efficiency wage theory predicts that the wage per unit of effort will be lower in intensively monitored sectors. This wage differential will increase in effort. Using employer-employee matched data from Ghana we provide evidence supporting this hypothesis. %K monitoring %K efficiency wages