Despite its potential to raise productivity, performance-related-pay (PRP) is not widespread in market-oriented economies. Furthermore, despite secular changes conducive to its take-up, there is mixed evidence as to whether it has become more prominent over time. Ours is the first paper to...

Using nationally representative linked employer-employee data we find one-quarter of employees in Britain are paid for performance. The log hourly wage gap between performance pay and fixed pay employees is .36 points. This falls to .15 log points after controlling for observable demographic,...

Despite its potential to raise productivity, performance-related-pay (PRP) is not widespread in market-oriented economies. Furthermore, despite secular changes conducive to its take-up, there is mixed evidence as to whether it has become more prominent over time. Ours is the first paper to...

Presentation to Annual WPEG Conference 2013, Sheffield.

This report presents findings from the 2011 Employers Pension Provision Survey (EPP 2011). The survey was the ninth in a series, with previous surveys having been conducted in 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009. The main aim of the report is to describe the extent and nature of...

Abstract Although performance-related-pay (PRP) can raise productivity and firm performance in many settings, we find the size of performance payments is usually too small to influence the performance of most employees and its incidence across firms and workplaces in Britain is fairly low,...

This report describes the extent and nature of pension provision among private sector employers in Great Britain in 2007. The findings are based on a survey carried out among a nationally-representative sample of 2,360 private sector employers. In respect of the extent of provision, the report...

First Findings from the 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Study

Despite its potential to raise productivity, performance-related-pay (PRP) is not widespread in market-oriented economies. Furthermore, despite secular changes conducive to its take-up, there is mixed evidence as to whether it has become more prominent over time. Ours is the first paper to...

The purpose of this statistical report is to present new evidence on the nature and practice of employment relations in Britain's regions. The evidence comes from the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS 2004), which is widely regarded as the most authoritative source of quantitative...