By using a large new panel of individual data, including objective measures of worker performance, we provide some of … find that earnings-tenure profiles for employee owners are not upward-sloping but horizontal. In addition we find that pay-performance …

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 …