This paper, using panel data on Finnish metalworkers for the years 1990–2000, explores gender differences in the allocation of workers across jobs of different complexity. The data provide measures for the complexity of the workers' tasks and for the individual productivity of each...

This paper examines the earnings effects of performance pay using linked employee-employer panel data from Finland's metal industry for 1990–2000. The authors estimate the effects of performance pay contracts in the presence of individual and firm unobserved heterogeneity as well as in...