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Disengagement 14-16: context and evidence

Steedman, Hilary; Stoney, Sheila - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper presents an overview of our current state of knowledge regarding poor motivation of 14-16 year old school … intervention programmes to improve motivation. International comparisons (PISA) show UK disengagement below the OECD average but …

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Gender, motivation, experience and wages

Swaffield, Joanna - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

motivation, aspirations and constraints are found to have a significant impact on the female wage. Moreover, the impact of time … out of the labour market varies across gender, activity undertaken while out, labour market motivation and the degree of …

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The economic psychology of incentives: an international study of top managers

Pepper, Alexander; Gore, Julie - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

The world-wide inflation in executive compensation in recent years has been accompanied by an increase in the prevalence of long-term incentives. This article demonstrates how the subjectively perceived value of long-term incentives is affected by risk aversion, uncertainty aversion, and time...

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Behavioral agency theory: new foundations for theorizing about executive compensation

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

intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. We argue that behavioral agency theory provides a better framework for theorizing about …

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Dynamic yardstick regulation

Faure-Grimaud, Antoine; Reiche, Sonje - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

implement the commitment solution with constraints on transfers. Second, absent current competition, the possibility of future …

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Strategic trade and industrial policy towards dynamic oligopolies

Neary, J. Peter; Leahy, Dermot - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

business strategies. Without government commitment, there is an additional basis for intervention, whose sign depends on the …

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Moral hazard and renegotiation of multi-signal contracts

Bijapur, Mohan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

always decrease the agency cost, it can have the adverse effect of weakening the principal's commitment not to renegotiate …

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Leadership games with convex strategy sets

von Stengel, Bernhard; Zamir, Shmuel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

A basic model of commitment is to convert a two-player game in strategic form to a “leadership game” with the same …

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Teachers before the 'threshold'

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

effects on motivation and performance. This paper reports preliminary findings from the first wave of the survey, before the … view of motivation and work behaviour, and potential recruitment. The danger of widespread de-motivation is a serious one …

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Can a work organization have an attitude problem? The impact of workplaces on employee attitude and economic outcomes

Bartel, Ann; Ichniowski, Casey; Kleiner, Morris; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

In this study we examine whether a workplace can induce good or bad attitudes among its employees and whether any such ¿workplace attitudes¿ affect economic outcomes. This study analyzes responses of thousands of employees working in nearly two hundred branches to the emp loyee opinion survey...

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