Pay as incentive or pay as reward? The case of Taiwan

Sheng-Ping Yang and Ronald DeBeaumont

Journal of Asian Economics, 2010, vol. 21, issue 1, 76-86

Abstract: By the 1980s, Taiwan had gradually transformed itself from an economy in which labor was plentiful, while capital was in short supply, into an economy in which a surplus of capital was accompanied by a shortage of labor. For labor economists interested in rapidly evolving labor markets, there are many intriguing questions arising out of this transition. This study explores how conventional labor market and efficiency wage theories apply during this transformation. Based on monthly data over the period 1982-2007, we examine the linear causality between pay and productivity using Geweke's [Geweke, J. (1982). Measurement of linear dependence and feedback between multiple time series. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 77, 304-313] linear feedback technique. The results indicate that both pay as reward and pay as incentive behaviors are significant in the Taiwanese economy, with pay as incentive especially strong in the manufacturing sector.

Keywords: Efficiency; wages; Linear; feedback; Labor; productivity; Taiwanese; labor; market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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