Performance Pay and Productivity
[abstract only; full text not retrieved. The published abstract and the NBER working-paper abstract were both read, and the two figures must not be mixed] Lazear, E. P. (2000). 'Performance Pay and Productivity.' American Economic Review, 90(5), 1346-1361. doi:10.1257/aer.90.5.1346. Safelite Glass Corporation switched from hourly pay to piece rates between 1994 and 1995, and the published abstract gives productivity effects amounting to a 44 per cent increase in output per worker, with profits rising too. Both cautions are in the prose: the working paper gives the effect as about 20 to 36 per cent depending on what is held constant, and the theory the paper tests predicts the firm also attracted a more able workforce, so selection sits inside the number.
[abstract only; full text not retrieved. The published abstract and the NBER working-paper abstract were both read, and the two figures must not be mixed] Lazear, E. P. (2000). 'Performance Pay and Productivity.' American Economic Review, 90(5), 1346-1361. doi:10.1257/aer.90.5.1346. Safelite Glass Corporation switched from hourly pay to piece rates between 1994 and 1995, and the published abstract gives productivity effects amounting to a 44 per cent increase in output per worker, with profits rising too. Both cautions are in the prose: the working paper gives the effect as about 20 to 36 per cent depending on what is held constant, and the theory the paper tests predicts the firm also attracted a more able workforce, so selection sits inside the number.
Written from the abstract only; full text not retrieved. The published abstract and the NBER working-paper abstract were both read, and the two figures must not be mixed.
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Lazear, E. P. (2000). 'Performance Pay and Productivity.' American Economic Review, 90(5), 1346-1361.