Performance-Related Pay: The Expected and the Unexpected

KA Bender, JD Skåtun - Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and …, 2022 - Springer
Performance-related pay (PRP) is one of the most widely researched areas in labor
economics given its intuitive allure at giving incentives for high productivity. While firms have …

The cyclical behavior of job quality and real wage growth

A Bellou, B Kaymak - American Economic Review: Insights, 2021 - aeaweb.org
We study the empirical relevance of implicit insurance contracts for wage setting while
accounting for cyclical fluctuations in average job quality. Using proxy measures, we find the …

Reasons for college major-job mismatch and subsequent job mobility and earnings growth

S Jiang - Empirical Economics, 2024 - Springer
This study examines the heterogeneity in job mobility and earnings growth among workers
who were mismatched in their previous jobs due to different reasons. Mismatched is defined …

Within-Job Wage Inequality: The Nexus between Performance Pay and Skill Match

R Tang, Y Tang, P Wang - Available at SSRN 5067617, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
Over recent decades, we find about 80% of widening residual wage inequality to be within
jobs (industry-occupation pairs). To explore the underlying drivers, we incorporate into a …