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Sampling poses an interesting problem in markets with experience goods. Free samples reveal product quality and help consumers to make informed purchase decisions (promotional effect). However, sampling may also induce consumers to substitute purchases with free consumption (displacement...
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We study how the management practices that bureaucrats operate under, correlate to the quantity and quality of public services delivered. We do so in a developing country context, exploiting data from the Nigerian Civil Service linking public sector organizations to the projects they are...
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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...
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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...
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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. …
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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...
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In recent years, British labour markets have been characterised by a decline of institutional regulation of entry routes into many occupations and internal labour markets. This paper examines this change by comparing occupational labour markets for selected occupations in which institutional...
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. In the financial sector, these career streams are linked to training and geographical mobility within the organization … with those with craft skills. For the former, company-specific training develops with internal movement. For the latter …, training is by apprenticeship leading to externally transferable skills. The two sub-systems are interrelated as it is often …
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In the empirical literature on work experience, job tenure, training and earnings, only one previous study has made a … has made the distinction with respect to training. Yet it is reasonable to hypothesize that the distinction is important … independent effect. Similarly it is found that the distinction between training for current and previous occupations gives better …
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