Earnings, productivity, and performance-related pay

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Booth, AL; Frank, J
• 署名单位: University of Essex; University of London; Royal Holloway University London
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/209927
• 发表日期: 1999
• 页码: 447-463
• 关键词: piece

摘要

Jobs with performance-related pay (PRP) attract workers of higher ability and induce workers to provide greater effort. We construct an integrated model of effort and sorting that clarifies the distinction between observable and unobservable ability and the relationship between earnings and productivity. Predictions are tested against data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). The PRP raises wages by 9% for men and 6% for women. Theoretical calculations show that these estimated earnings differentials represent average productivity differentials net of monitoring costs at the marginal firm using PRP but not of the disutility of additional effort expended by workers.