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This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot … targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We use data from the agency's performance management system and personnel … records plus matched labour market data. We focus on three main issues: whether performance pay matters for public service …
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performance in a real competitive environment with real tasks and real incentives. …
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raise or lower their performance? Behavioral evidence on these important questions is rare. This paper takes a novel … positional concerns and envy reduce individual performance. In contrast, there does not seem to be any tolerance for income …
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performance in a real competitive environment with real tasks and real incentives. …
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We analyse the performance persistence and survivorship bias of Islamic and Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) funds …-financial attributes influence performance and performance persistence. We propose a refined version of the procedures used in the … literature based on a cross-sectional test to control for significance of the recursive portfolios according to past performance …
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-2001. Cette comparaison donne une idee de la performance des villes canadiennes relativement a leurs analogues americaines au …
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Le present document de recherche etudie les changements observes au niveau de la diversification des entreprises et des usines depuis le debut des annees 70 dans le secteur canadien de la fabrication. Il revele qu'il y a eu, en general, une augmentation de la specialisation tant des entreprises...
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This paper studies changes in diversification of firms and plants since the early 1970s in the Canadian manufacturing sector. It finds that there has been a general increase in specialization of both firms and plants. Firms have been continuously reducing the span of industries in which they...
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against our data. We find that team size affects the impact of the incentive scheme upon performance. Moreover, while the …
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The relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and firm performance has been a hotly debated topic over the …
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