TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Baktash, Mehrzad B.
AU  - Heywood, John S.
AU  - Jirjahn, Uwe
        TI  - Performance Pay and Happiness: Work vs. Home?
        PY  - 2025/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 18181
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp18181
        AB  - Using German survey data, we show conflicting influences of performance pay on overall life satisfaction. The overall influence reflects a strong positive influence through domains of life satisfaction associated with the job (job satisfaction, individual earnings satisfaction and household earning satisfaction) and a strong negative influence through domains away from the job (health satisfaction, sleep satisfaction and family life satisfaction). This trade-off between work and home generalizes and helps explain many previous studies examining much more specific consequences of performance pay. Finally, controlling for the mediating role of the domains, the direct influence on life satisfaction is positive for women and insignificantly different from zero for men.
        KW  - well-being
KW  - life satisfaction
KW  - performance pay
KW  - satisfaction domains
KW  - gender
        ER  -