Wages and performance-based pay: Evidence from the NLSY

Bradley T. Ewing

doi:10.1016/0165-1765(95)00775-X

Wages and performance-based pay: Evidence from the NLSY

Bradley T. Ewing

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The link between performance and pay should be strongest where performance is more accurately observed, Brown (Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1990, 43, 1655-1825; RAND Journal of Economics, 1992, 23, 366-375). More productive workers self-select into jobs with performance-based pay. Consequently, workers whose pay is based on performance should earn more than those whose pay is not based on such measures. This paper adds to the literature on the subject by providing new empirical evidence for Brown's model using the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth (NLSY) data.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	241-246
Number of pages	6
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	51
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-1765(95)00775-X
State	Published - May 1996

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NLSY
Pay
Performance
Wages

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