Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/126490 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Working Paper Series No. 2015-09
Publisher: 
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester
Abstract: 
Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) we show performance pay (PP) increased earnings dispersion among men and women, and to a lesser extent among full-time working women, in the decade of economic growth which ended with the recession of 2008. PP was also associated with some compression in the lower half of the wage distribution for women. The effects were predominantly associated with a broad measure of PP that included bonuses. However, these effects were modest and there is no indication that PP became increasingly prevalent, as some had predicted, over the decade prior to recession.
Subjects: 
wages
wage inequality
performance pay
bonuses
JEL: 
J31
J33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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