Is seniority-based pay used as a motivation device?
Subtitle: evidence from plant level data
By: by Alberto Bayo-Moriones, José Enrique Galdón-Sánchez, Maia Guell.
Contributors: Galdón-Sánchez, José Enrique; Güell, Maia.
Series: Discussion paper ;; no. 1321; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) ;; no. 1321
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Wages and labor productivity.; Wage differentials.; Incentives in industry.; Employee motivation.
Description: "In this paper we use data from industrial plants to investigate if seniority-based pay is used as a motivational device for production workers. Alternatively, seniority-based pay could simply be a wage setting rule not necessarily related to the provision of incentives. Unlike previous papers, we use a direct measure of seniority-based pay as well as measures of monitoring devices and piece-rates. We find that firms that offer seniority-based pay are less likely to offer explicit incentives. They are also less likely to invest in monitoring devices. We also find that firms that offer seniority-based pay are more likely to engage in other human resource management policies that result in long employment relationships. Overall these results suggest that seniority-based pay is indeed used as a motivation device"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
Notes: Also available in print.
Includes bibliographical references.
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