Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/328276 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 1677
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen
Abstract: 
Using German survey data, we show conflicting influences of performance pay on overall life satisfaction. The overall influence reflects a strong positive influence through domains of life satisfaction associated with the job (job satisfaction, individual earnings satisfaction and household earning satisfaction) and a strong negative influence through domains away from the job (health satisfaction, sleep satisfaction and family life satisfaction). This trade-off between work and home generalizes and helps explain many previous studies examining much more specific consequences of performance pay. Finally, controlling for the mediating role of the domains, the direct influence on life satisfaction is positive for women and insignificantly different from zero for men.
Subjects: 
Performance Pay
Life Satisfaction
Well-Being
Satisfaction Domains
Gender
JEL: 
D10
J22
J33
M52
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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