• Does Performance Pay Increase Alcohol and Drug Use? 

      Artz, Ben; Green, Colin; Heywood, John S. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Using US panel data on young workers, we demonstrate that those who receive performance pay are more likely to consume alcohol and illicit drugs. Recognizing that this likely reflects worker sorting, we first control for ...
    • Hierarchy and the Employer Size Effect on Wages: Evidence from Britain 

      Green, Colin; Heywood, John S.; Theodoropolous, Nikolaos (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      We argue that employer size wage effects reflect the role of hierarchy. Using matched employer–employee data and individual longitudinal data, we show that the employer size wage effects for supervisors are approximately ...
    • Paradox Lost: The Disappearing Female Job Satisfaction Premium 

      Green, Colin; Heywood, John S.; Kler, Parvinder; Leeves, Gareth (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Using the original data source of Clark, we show that over the last two decades the female satisfaction gap he documented has vanished. This reflects a strong secular decline in female job satisfaction. This decline happened ...
    • Performance Pay and Assortative Matching 

      Bender, Keith; Green, Colin; Heywood, John S. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      We show that couples sort on performance pay with dual receipt couples much more likely than predicted by random. In addition, we show that the return to performance pay appears largely invariant to whether one's spouse ...
    • Performance Pay, Work Hours and Employee Health in the UK 

      Green, Colin Peter; Heywood, John S. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      A large body of research links performance pay to poorer worker health. The mechanism generating this link remains in doubt. We examine a common suspect, that performance pay causes employees to work longer hours in pursuit ...