Background and Previous Experience
Sara Martinez de Morentin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Public University of Navarre (UPNA), Spain. She completed her Ph.D. in Economics in 2012, and that same year, she was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex.
Her research interests are in Personnel Economics and Human Resource Management. More specifically, these interests include the design of compensation systems, the implementation of incentive schemes for workers, the selection and training of personnel, and the influence of labor market institutions on management practices. The topic of her dissertation was “Performance Appraisal, Incentive Payment and Pay Settlements: A Study using EstablishmentLevel Data".
Current Research at ILR
At the ILR School, she will be working on the relationship between individual characteristics and the use of different incentive mechanisms. In particular, she will take into account the use of performance related pay, bonus pay, rising wage profiles, and promotion opportunities. The main goal is to test the notion of multidimensional sorting. In other words, the use of specific incentive mechanisms may attract workers with specific attributes. This is a relevant issue for employers who need to bear in mind that the choice of incentives conditions the composition of their workforce, and consequently, it could affect organizational performance.
-Sara Martinez de Morentin
