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TY - JOUR
T1 - Don't forget the gravy!
T2 - are bonuses and time rates complements?
AU - Green, Colin
AU - Heywood, John
N1 - This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Green, C. P. and Heywood, J. S. (2016), Don't Forget the Gravy! Are Bonuses Just Added on Top of Salaries?. Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 55: 490–513. doi: 10.1111/irel.12147 which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/irel.12147/abstract This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.
PY - 2016/7
Y1 - 2016/7
N2 - The press often depicts bonuses as extra payments to the already well compensated and calls for reform. Yet, these calls typically ignore the efficiency argument that bonuses are potentially risky performance pay that substitute for salary compensation. This paper uses representative UK data to estimate that bonuses appear not to substitute for salary in cross-sectional estimates. Yet, when controlling for time invariant characteristics in panel data, bonuses emerge as partial substitutes. Each pound of bonus comes at a cost of 40 pence inother earnings. The degree of substitution is far larger at the bottom of the earnings distribution and far smaller at the top of the earnings distribution where, indeed, bonuses look more like gravy.
AB - The press often depicts bonuses as extra payments to the already well compensated and calls for reform. Yet, these calls typically ignore the efficiency argument that bonuses are potentially risky performance pay that substitute for salary compensation. This paper uses representative UK data to estimate that bonuses appear not to substitute for salary in cross-sectional estimates. Yet, when controlling for time invariant characteristics in panel data, bonuses emerge as partial substitutes. Each pound of bonus comes at a cost of 40 pence inother earnings. The degree of substitution is far larger at the bottom of the earnings distribution and far smaller at the top of the earnings distribution where, indeed, bonuses look more like gravy.
KW - Bonus payments
KW - Performance pay
KW - Complements
U2 - 10.1111/irel.12147
DO - 10.1111/irel.12147
M3 - Journal article
VL - 55
SP - 490
EP - 513
JO - Industrial Relations
JF - Industrial Relations
SN - 1468-232X
IS - 3
ER -