On the basis of published earnings data, estimated compensation ratios, and estimated hours, China's manufacturing employees averaged about 57 cents compensation per hour worked in 2002 W ith by far the world's largest manufacturing workforce, at more than 100 million, 1 China is widely known to have low labor costs. Statistics available for the first time for the entire country for 2002 now pe...

To assist the Commission in developing final rules regarding pay ratio disclosure, staff in the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis analyzed the potential effects on the pay ratio calculation of the exclusion of different percentages of employees. Excluding some employees from the determination of median employee compensation, which some commenters suggested, can affect the calculation of th...

This article measures the earnings and welfare losses experienced by displaced employees of the Central Bank of Ecuador. It links these losses to individual characteristics such as gender, education, seniority, and salary in the public sector. Data are from a survey of displaced employees that included subjective evaluations of well-being in addition to information on activity and earnings. The...

To align employees’ interests with the firm’s goals, employers often use performance-based pay, but designing such a compensation plan is challenging because performance is typically multifaceted. For example, a sales employee should be incentivized to sell the company’s product, but a focus on current sales without rewarding the salespeople according to the quality of the product and/or custom...

Records of 793,794 employees eligible to participate in 647 defined contribution pension plans are studied. About 71% of them choose to participate in the plans, and of the participants, 12% choose to contribute the maximum allowed, $10,500. The main findings are (other things equal) (1) participation rates, contributions and (most remarkably) savings rates increase with compensation; on averag...

ISSN 2277-5056 | © 2013 Bonfring Abstract--This study aims at exploring the impact of high performance HR practices on employees’ job performance. The study sought to establish the effect of job design, training and development, motivation, supervisory support, working environment and compensation on employees’ job performance in Leather goods manufacturing companies at Vellore district. The re...