Performance Related Pay and Labour Productivity

Working Paper: CEPR ID: DP5455

Authors: Anne Gielen; Marcel J. M. Kerkhofs; Jan C. van Ours

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

Keywords: labour productivity; performance related pay

JEL Codes: C41; H55; J64; J65


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Causal Claims

CauseEffect
performance-related pay (PRP) (J33)labor productivity (J24)

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