• Media type: Report; E-Book
  • Title: The Dispersion of Bonus Payments within and between Firms
  • Contributor: Grund, Christian [Author]; Hofmann, Tanja [Author]
  • imprint: Bonn: Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), 2017
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: pay policies ; J33 ; wage dispersion ; J31 ; firm differences ; bonus payments ; bonus to base rate ; M52
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  • Description: We explore the dispersion of bonus payments of managers within and between five large firms from the German chemical sector. We use data from a yearly salary survey in these firms during the observation period 2008 to 2013. Bonus payments account for 20 percent of base salaries on average. Both the amount and the dispersion of bonus-to-base ratios differ across firms. We disentangle the dispersion between and within the levels of firms' hierarchies. Revealed differences are consistent with differences in firms' value statements.
  • Access State: Open Access