throughout the economy and include contracts linking CEO pay directly to firm performance, annual bonus schemes, the posting of … performance bonds, and holding company stock. These incentive mechanisms appear to complement rather than substitute for one … another. The elasticity of pay with respect to company performance is one or more in two-fifths of the cases where CEO's have …

literature on the prevalence and correlates of performance bonds posted by corporate executives. We show that they are an … important feature in today's CEO labour market in China: around one-tenth of corporations deploy performance bonds and they are …

We analyze the impact of interim ranking on the risk taking and performance behaviour of professional athletes …

This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot … targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We use data from the agency's performance management system and personnel … records plus matched labour market data. We focus on three main issues: whether performance pay matters for public service …

performance, even with quite large teams. We examine whether this effect was due to increased effort from workers or strategic … task reallocation. We find that the provision of financial incentives did raise individual performance but that managers …

to performance. For the first time we employ a Hodrick-Prescott Filter, a methodology widely used in macroeconomics to …

The introduction of performance-related pay with Performance Management in the state school sector of England and Wales … performance reviews. Experienced teachers were offered an extended pay scale based on performance instead of seniority, and to … skills and performance. This paper reports the results of a panel survey of classroom and head teachers which started in 2000 …

The introduction of performance-related pay and performance management schemes in the maintained, state, school sector … and head teachers with Department for Education and Skills school performance data to consider the operation and impact of … related to rising pupil academic performance. …