During the summer of 2000, the government will introduce a new system of pay and performance management for teachers …. The Centre for Economic Performance is conducting a ‘before-andafter’ panel study of teachers and schools to ascertain its … effects on motivation and performance. This paper reports preliminary findings from the first wave of the survey, before the …

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

the hypothesis that ownership-specific advantages are a major determinant of performance differences. This paper explores … performance issues using the eclectic paradigm configuration of hotel and hospitality multinationals (NACE=55), operating in …

We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as … chiefly by supply-side factors in the form of excess cohort competition and not quality differences since the performance of … cohorts. Performance-adjusted wage losses for those born in large birth cohorts are therefore greater than the raw estimates …

. In a natural experiment, we study the gender difference in performance resulting from changes in stakes. We use detailed … information on the performance of high-school students and exploit the variation in the stakes of tests, which range from 5% to 27 …

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