Support for increasing low-wage workers’ compensation: The role of fixed-growth mindsets about intelligence

• Main Authors: MADAN, Shilpa, MA, Anyi, PANDEY, Neeraj, RATTAN, Aneeta, SAVANI, Krishna
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: low-wage workers; lay theories; minimum wage; fixed-growth mindsets; attributions; Marketing; Organizational Behavior and Theory
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/7252; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/8251/viewcontent/Madan_et_al_2022.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Approximately 44% of U.S. workers are low-wage workers. Recent years have witnessed a raging debate about whether to raise their minimum wages. Why do some decision-makers support raising wages and others do not? Ten studies (four preregistered) examined people’s beliefs about the malleability of in...