Signaling in Secret: Pay-for-Performance and the Incentive and Sorting Effects of Pay Secrecy

Key Findings: Pay secrecy adversely impacts individual task performance because it weakens the perception that an increase in performance will be accompanied by increase in pay; Pay secrecy is associated with a decrease in employee performance and retention in pay-for-performance systems, which measure performance using relative (i.e., peer-ranked) criteria rather than an absolute scale (see Figure 2 on page 5); High performing employees tend to be most sensitive to negative pay-for- performance perceptions; There are many signals embedded within HR policies and practices, which can influence employees’ perception of workplace uncertainty/inequity and impact their performance and turnover intentions; and When pay transparency is impractical, organizations may benefit from introducing partial pay openness to mitigate these effects on employee performance and retention

Economic Impact Research Plan for Family and Medical Leave in DC

[Excerpt] The Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) was awarded a contract from the District of Columbia for research that explores that costs and benefits of paid family leave and the feasibility of expanding coverage of access to paid leave under a grant received from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau and Employment and Training Administration. The research will include three major components: Actuarial analyses employing statistical models to estimate future usage and durations of leave that workers might take under selected policy plans. The estimates of workers’ leave taking and the characteristics of the leaves are a primary input into the other two components. Economic impact analyses will examine the effect of leave taking on employers, workers, workers’ families, and the community. Cost-Benefit analysis combining the costs and benefits of potential paid leave program designs on for a given time frame and using methods to render choices as comparable as possible for comparative evaluation.DC_Research_Plan.pdf: 12 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Economic Impact Research Plan for Family and Medical Leave in DC

[Excerpt] The Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) was awarded a contract from the District of Columbia for research that explores that costs and benefits of paid family leave and the feasibility of expanding coverage of access to paid leave under a grant received from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau and Employment and Training Administration. The research will include three major components: Actuarial analyses employing statistical models to estimate future usage and durations of leave that workers might take under selected policy plans. The estimates of workers’ leave taking and the characteristics of the leaves are a primary input into the other two components. Economic impact analyses will examine the effect of leave taking on employers, workers, workers’ families, and the community. Cost-Benefit analysis combining the costs and benefits of potential paid leave program designs on for a given time frame and using methods to render choices as comparable as possible for comparative evaluation.DC_Research_Plan.pdf: 12 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Economic Impact Research Plan for Family and Medical Leave in DC

This research plan examines the economic impact of family and medical leave in the District of Columbia