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Seniority-based pay: Is it used as a motivation device?

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  • Alberto Bayo-Moriones

    (Departamento de Gestión de Empresas, Universidad Pública de Navarra)

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to explain what factors determine the use of seniority-based pay for production workers in Spanish manufacturing industry. The data used in order to achieve these objectives was taken from 774 Spanish industrial plants. The estimation of several ordered probit models enabled us to see that in firms where it was more costly for management to engage in opportunistic behaviour, deferred payment shows a negative relation to the use of devices, like monitoring or incentive payment, designed to align workers’ objectives with those of the company.

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  • Alberto Bayo-Moriones, 2001. "Seniority-based pay: Is it used as a motivation device?," Working Papers 200103, Departament Empresa, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
    • Handle: RePEc:bbe:wpaper:200103
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    1. Olmo Silva, 2004. "Entrepreneurship: Can the Jack-of-All-Trades Attitude be Aquired?," CEP Discussion Papers dp0665, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.

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    Keywords

    seniority-based pay; delayed payment; manual workers; Spanish manufacturing firm;
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    JEL classification:

    • J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
    • J33 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Compensation Packages; Payment Methods
    • M12 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation

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