Variable pay and work hours: does performance pay reduce the gender time gap?
Mehrzad B. Baktash,
John S. Heywood and
Uwe Jirjahn
Economica, 2025, vol. 92, issue 368, 1149-1167
Abstract:
Using German survey data, we show in worker fixed effects estimates that performance pay is associated with a substantially lower gender hours gap. While performance pay increases the work hours of both men and women, the increase is much larger for women than for men. We argue that our finding likely reflects differences in household production and specialization by gender. Thus, we show that performance pay is not associated with increased hours for men with children in the household. Yet, performance pay is associated with a very large increase in hours for women with children in the household.
Date: 2025
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:
Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.70004
Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.
Export reference: BibTeX
RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan)
HTML/Text
Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bla:econom:v:92:y:2025:i:368:p:1149-1167
Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.blackwell ... bs.asp?ref=0013-0427
Access Statistics for this article
Economica is currently edited by Frank Cowell, Tore Ellingsen and Alan Manning
More articles in Economica from London School of Economics and Political Science Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Wiley Content Delivery ().