Pay-for-performance, job attraction, and the prospects of bureaucratic representation in public organizations: evidence from a conjoint experiment
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Does pay-for-performance – a hotly debated compensation scheme for incentivizing public service efficiency – induce inadvertent heterogeneity in job attraction that is counteracting the prospects of bureaucratic diversity and representation? Using data from a pre-registered conjoint experiment among US residents (n = 1,501), we examine whether pay-for-performance (compared to fixed pay) affects attraction to a public service job differently across race, gender, and age. Contrary to theoretical expectations, we find that pay-for-performance does not diminish attraction to a public service job within or between demographic groups. In fact, we find indications that pay-for-performance may enhance job attractiveness among individuals identifying with minority racial groups.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Tidsskrift | Public Management Review |
ISSN | 1471-9037 |
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Status | E-pub ahead of print - 9 aug. 2023 |
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- recruitment, pay-for-performance, representative bureaucracy, equity, survey experiment
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