Performance Related Pay and Labor Productivity

Anne Gielen, Marcel Kerkhofs () and Jan van Ours
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Marcel Kerkhofs: Tilburg University

No 2211, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper uses information from a panel of Dutch firms to investigate the labor productivity effects of performance related pay (PRP). We find that PRP increases labor productivity at the firm level with about 9% and employment with about 5%.

Keywords: labor productivity; performance related pay (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C41 H55 J64 J65 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2006-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-eff, nep-lab and nep-pbe
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Published - published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (1), 291-301

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