Pay method affects vineyard pruner performance

Pay for performance.

Pay-for-Performance Initiatives

BACKGROUND: Improving the quality of care provided to beneficiaries while reining in costs, is a key goal for Medicare programs. The emerging payfor-performance (P4P) movement is a reimbursement strategy that provides incentives to improve the overall quality care provided to patients, which can lead to improved clinical outcomes and reduced health care utilization and costs. OBJECTIVE: To revi...

Pay and Non-pay Incentives, Performance and Motivation

This paper provides an overview of evidence of the effects of incentives on the performance and motivation of independent health professionals and health workers. Incentives are viewed in the context of objectives held by paying agencies or employers. The review defines the nature of economic incentives and of non-financial incentives. Particular attention is paid to the need for developing cou...

Efficiency Wages and Performance Pay

This paper studies contract selection between efficiency wages and subjective performance pay to motivate workers in a market setting. The optimal wage contract (which may be a combination of efficiency wages and subjective performance pay) is determined by turnover costs in labor markets. Specifically, labor markets with higher turnover costs use more subjective performance pay and less effici...

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...