Publication type
Journal Article
Authors
Publication date
June 1, 2014
Summary:
Although performance pay schemes have been linked to labour market productivity, one unintended consequence, suggested early by Adam Smith, is that performance pay is detrimental to health. Recent research has shown that there is a positive relationship between performance pay and injuries on the job. This article focusses on the consequences of performance pay on health and investigates if there is a link between performance pay and self-reported general health or specific illnesses. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey, this study uses survival analysis to show that being in jobs with a performance pay element increases the likelihood of health deterioration, ceteris paribus.
Published in
Oxford Economic Papers
Volume and page numbers
Volume: 66 , p.824 -847
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpt032
ISSN
307653
Subjects
Notes
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