Der Beitrag geht der Frage nach, welche Entwicklungen sich in der Metall- und Elektroindustrie seit der Debatte um eine arbeitgeberseitig für notwendig erachtete "Revitalisierung" und von Arbeitssoziologen befürchtete "Vermarktlichung" bzw. "Finalisierung" der Leistungsentlohnung ergaben....

This paper describes a series of school-based randomized trials in over 250 urban schools designedto test the impact of financial incentives on student achievement. In stark contrast to simple economicmodels, our results suggest that student incentives increase achievement when the rewards are...

As correctly noted by Matthew Drennan in his paper forthis conference, the nature of the transformation that hasoccurred in the New York metropolitan region since 1989is rather mixed. Although the region has regained onlyhalf of the 625,000 jobs it lost during the 1989-92 period,aggregate...