Abstract
The increasing use of incentive pay schemes in recent years has raised concerns about their potential detrimental effect on intrinsic job satisfaction (JS), job security and employee morale. This study explores the impact of pay incentives on the overall JS of workers in the United Kingdom and their satisfaction with various facets of jobs. Using data from eight waves (1998–2005) of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and a uniquely designed well-being dataset (EPICURUS), a significant positive impact on JS is only found for those receiving fixed-period bonuses. These conclusions are robust to unobserved heterogeneity, and are shown to depend on a number of job-quality characteristics that have not been controlled for in previous studies.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 662-684 |
Number of pages | 23 |
Journal | Scottish Journal of Political Economy |
Volume | 56 |
Issue number | 5 |
Early online date | 1 Oct 2009 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Nov 2009 |
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Socioeconomics Status and Labour Market Experiences
Ioannis Theodossiou (Coordinator) & Konstantinos Pouliakas (Coordinator)
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