Should all employee wages be made public? Daniel Indiviglio at The Atlantic considered some of the issues involved.

• Salary transparency in some groups but not others might lead to greater income inequality. The rationale is that those that have perfect information about each other’s income compare themselves to each other and expect salaries that are higher than their peers.
• Pay transparency might also encourage those who make lower than average salaries to go out and search for better jobs.
• Salary transparency might not always be legal.

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Source: The Atlantic

Via: Marginal Revolution