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Employer Strategies and Wages in New Service Activities: A Comparison of Co‐ordinated and Liberal Market Economies
Author(s) -
Batt Rosemary,
Nohara Hiroatsu,
Kwon Hyunji
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
british journal of industrial relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.665
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-8543
pISSN - 0007-1080
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8543.2010.00789.x
Subject(s) - work (physics) , service (business) , labour economics , economics , survey data collection , business , market economy , economy , mechanical engineering , statistics , mathematics , engineering
Using survey data for call centre establishments in eight countries, we examine the relationship between wages and human resource practices. High‐involvement work design and the use of performance‐based pay are significantly positively related to wages, whereas intensive use of performance monitoring is negatively associated with wages. These relationships are larger among liberal economies compared with co‐ordinated ones, but individual country differences are large and, in many cases, do not conform to expectations regarding institutional differences between liberal and co‐ordinated market economies. The exception is Denmark.