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Video killed the radio star? Online music videos and digital music sales

Kretschmer, Tobias; Peukert, Christian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

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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WAGE DETERMINATION IN A SIMPLE HIERARCHICAL MODEL WITH A NONZERO PROBABILITY OF PROMOTION

BRUNELLO, G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1989

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Management of bureaucrats and public service delivery: evidence from the Nigerian civil service

Rasul, Imran; Rogger, Daniel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

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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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...

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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. …

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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...

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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...

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Rise of the machines: the effects of labor-saving innovations on jobs and wages

Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

complexity and its training requirements. When two tasks are equally complex, firms will automate the task that requires more … training and in which labor is hence more expensive. Under quite general conditions this leads to job polarization, a decline …. The model makes novel predictions regarding occupational training requirements, which we find to be consistent with US …

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Does high involvement management lead to higher pay?

Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work histories we find wage effects of high involvement management (HIM) practices are generally positive and significant. However, employees with better wage and work histories are more...

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Team leadership in the intensive care unit: the perspective of specialists

Reader, Tom W.; Flin, Rhona; Cuthbertson, Brian H. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

intensive care unit team leaders and have implications for the development of team leadership training and assessment tools. …

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