Does Performance Pay Influence Hours of Work?

Telephone triage in-hours: does it work?

Cheating or ‘Collaborative Work’: Does it Pay?

Being a distance education institution, our current infrastructure does not allow group or collaborative work on undergraduate level. Although students are allowed to work together and assist each other, each student is required to submit individual attempts for assignments and/or projects. Assignments that are so similar that we could not accept them as individual attempts are considered cheat...

Pay for performance: a work in progress.

Any time money changes hands in health care, perverse consequences can result. This fact of financial life applies to the entire spectrum of payment options, including the 2 methodologies that define its extremes: fee for service potentially rewards clinicians for doing more than patients need, whereas capitation potentially rewards them for doing less. Pay for performance is an intermediate pa...

Does ‘Performance Pay’ Pay? Wage Flexibility over the Great Recession

Using the National Compensation Survey between 2004-2014, we document substantial cyclical heterogeneity among performance pay and fixed wage jobs. We find that employment growth in performance pay (fixed wage) jobs is countercyclical (procyclical), whereas compensation per employee growth is procyclical (countercyclical). Our estimates are identified off the response of similar work levels wit...

Hours of Work