The Recognition and Reward of Employee Performance
研究个人相对工资在多大程度上取决于其相对于同岗位其他人的生产率，发现初始工资受背景和培训成本影响而非相对生产率，一年后工资受生产率影响但弹性很小，且在大企业或小劳动力市场中工资对绩效反应更弱。
This paper examines when and to what extent an individual's relative wage depends on his/her productivity relative to others doing the same job. Starting wages were influenced by background characteristics and training cost realizations but not by relative productivity. Wages one year later were influenced by productivity but the effects were small. The wage elasticity was .2 at small establishments and 0 at establishments with over 400 employees. The wage response to relative productivity and training costs was weaker in small labor markets, suggesting that wages do not fully respond to performance because of the firm specificity of job performance differentials.