Study Says Higher Wages For Retail Workers Decreases Employee Theft
The higher the wages of retail workers, the less likely they are to steal store merchandise, according to a new study.
Using data sets from the convenience-store industry, Clara Xiaoling Chen, a professor of accountancy, and co-author Tatiana Sandino, of the University of Southern California, found that after controlling for each store’s employee characteristics, monitoring environment and socio-economic environment, relative wages – that is, wages relative to those received by other employees performing similar jobs in the same sector and region – were negatively associated with employee theft.