Is Seniority-Based Pay used as a Motivation Device? Evidence from Plant Level Data

Alberto Bayo-Moriones and Maia Güell
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Maia Güell () and Jose Enrique Galdon-Sanchez ()

No 138, Working Papers from Barcelona School of Economics

Abstract: In this paper we use data from industrial plants to investigate if seniority-based pay is used as a motivational device for production workers. Alternatively, seniority-based pay could simply be a wage setting rule not necessarily related to the provision of incentives. Unlike previous papers, we use a direct measure of seniority-based pay as well as measures of monitoring devices and piece-rates. We find that firms that offer seniority-based pay are less likely to offer explicit incentives. They are also less likely to invest in monitoring devices. We also find that firms that offer seniority-based pay are more likely to engage in other human resource management policies that result in long employment relationships. Overall these results suggest that seniority-based pay is indeed used as a motivation device.

Keywords: incentives; Human Resource managament practices; monitoring (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J30 M12 M52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-09
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Chapter: Is seniority-based pay used as a motivational device? Evidence from plant-level data (2010)
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