, increase or decrease firms' efficiency, scale of operation (size) and employment. Using a large panel of firm-level data from … Poland over 1995-2015, we show that rushed privatization has negative efficiency, scale and employment effects relative to … stronger than its negative effect on efficiency. Our results suggest that when policy makers resort to rushed privatization …

paramount concern. We assess the introduction of group-based performance pay in a modern industrial production setting using … difference-in-difference estimation. Performance increased by 19 percent, with three quarters coming from increased performance … little evidence of freeriding; quantile regressions show increased performance throughout the distribution of workers …

We study the effect of recognition on performance with a field experiment involving first-year undergraduate students … that conformance to performance norm is the most likely behavioral mechanism behind our findings. …

has ignored possible dynamic effects: e.g., anticipating that team formation is based on prior performance will affect … prior performance. We test this hypothesis in a lab experiment with two stages of a real effort task. Participants first … performance. Our results are consistent with a simple investment-cum-matching model: pairing the worst performing individuals with …

in order to assess how men and women respond to competitive pressure. Comparing their performance in low-stakes versus … results are mixed. Furthermore, even if women show a drop in performance in the more crucial stages of the match, it is in any …

country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a country's macroeconomic performance. After a …

games and underdogs to be less performing. They also show that the performance differential between players increases with …

By using a large new panel of individual data, including objective measures of worker performance, we provide some of … find that earnings-tenure profiles for employee owners are not upward-sloping but horizontal. In addition we find that pay-performance …