Has performance pay increased wage inequality in Britain?

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Research Paper

Series Number

1346

Series

CEP Discussion Papers

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Publication date

April 15, 2015

Summary:

Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) we show
performance pay (PP) increased earnings dispersion among men and women,
and to a lesser extent among full-time working women, in the decade of
economic growth which ended with the recession of 2008. PP was also
associated with some compression in the lower half of the wage
distribution for women. The effects were predominantly associated with a
broad measure of PP that included bonuses. However, these effects were
modest and there is no indication that PP became increasingly prevalent,
as some had predicted, over the decade prior to recession.

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