Publication type
Journal Article
Authors
Publication date
August 15, 2016
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, typically not exceeding a 0.05 log points change in log wage differentials over the decade. Moreover there is no indication that PP became increasingly prevalent, as some had predicted, over the decade prior to recession.
Published in
Labour Economics
Volume and page numbers
Volume: 41 , p.149 -161
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2016.05.002
ISSN
9275371
Subjects
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