Similar Search Results

Pay for performance where output is hard to measure: the case of performance pay for school teachers

Marsden, David; Belfield, Richard - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

The introduction of performance-related pay with Performance Management in the state school sector of England and Wales represents a considerable change in the school management system. After 2000, all teachers were subject to annual goal setting performance reviews. Experienced teachers were...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928638

Performance pay for teachers: linking individual and organisational level targets

Belfield, Richard; Marsden, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

The introduction of performance-related pay and performance management schemes in the maintained, state, school sector represents a considerable change in the school management system. This paper combines the results of opinion surveys of classroom and head teachers with Department for Education...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745401

Behavioral agency theory: new foundations for theorizing about executive compensation

Pepper, Alexander; Gore, Julie - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

This article describes new micro-foundations for theorizing about executive compensation, drawing on the behavioral … executive compensation, an enhanced theory of agent behavior, and an improved platform for making recommendations about the … design of executive compensation plans. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071099

Teachers and performance pay in 2014: first results of a survey

Marsden, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

From the autumn of 2014, a new performance pay scheme was introduced for school teachers in England and Wales. It makes pay progression for all teachers dependent upon their performance as evaluated by their line managers by means of performance appraisals. This paper reports the results of a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011188980

Quantile regression in lower bound estimation

Giorgetti, Maria Letizia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

In this paper, I illustrate the additional information that can be prodivided in estimating the lower bound (Sutton 1991, 1998) by using quantile regression. Quantile regression allows us to invesigate the influence of outliers. Previous lower bound have been performed using the simplex method....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928688

Union density and varieties of coverage: the anatomy of union wage effects in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten; Lembcke, Alexander - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining coverage is much higher than union density; and not all employees in a covered firm are necessarily covered. This institutional setup suggests to distinguish explicitly union...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928810

Skills and Wage Inequality in Greece: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data, 1995-2002

Christopoulou, Rebekka; Kosma, Theodora - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

This paper examines changes in the Greek wage distribution over 1995-2002 and the role of skill in these changes. The methodology adopted is the Machado-Mata counterfactual decomposition, which separates the part of wage changes that is due to job and workers' characteristics (composition...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016301

Skills and wage inequality in Greece: evidence from matched employer-employee data, 1995-2002

Christopoulou, Rebekka; Kosma, Theodora - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745541

Private investment and political uncertainty

Stasavage, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

Recent theoretical and empirical work has demonstrated a clear negative link between macroeconomic and political uncertainty and levels of private investment across countries. This result raises the question what institutions might help reduce this uncertainty, in particular by allowing host...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745744

Giving a little help to girls? evidence on grade discrimination and its effect on students' achievement

Terrier, Camille - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

This paper tests if gender-discrimination in grading affects pupils' achievements and course choices. I use a unique … from a substantive positive discrimination in math but not in French. This bias is not explained by girls' better behavior … to show that classes in which teachers present a high degree of discrimination in favor of girls are also classes in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266091