Search Results - subject:"performance targets"

A methodology for setting state and local regression-adjusted performance targets for workforce investment act programs

Eberts, Randall W.; Huang, Wei-Jang; Cai, Jing - 2013

approach for setting performance targets so that it also could be used for determining state and LWIA targets. Before the … and local PY2011 performance targets for the three Workforce Investment Act (WIA) programs. …

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Risk Aversion and Effort in an Incentive Pay Scheme with Multiplicative Noise: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Zubanov, Zubanov, N.V. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2012

The application of the classical "linear" model of incentive pay to the case when the noise is multiplicative to effort generates two predictions for a given strength of incentives: 1) more risk-averse workers will put in less effort, and 2) setting a performance target will weaken the negative...

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Do Performance Targets Affect Behaviour? Evidence from Discontinuities in Test Scores in England

Sartarelli, Marcello - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2011

Performance targets are ubiquitous in all areas of an individual's life such as education, jobs, sport competitions and … charity donations. In this paper I assess whether meeting performance targets in tests at school has an effect on students … expulsion from school, as well as police warnings, suggests no adverse behavioural effect of performance targets, which is …

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How do performance targets affect future performance by students and schools?

Sartarelli, Marcello; Tampieri, Alessandro - 2011

The paper examines whether meeting performance targets in tests at school has an effect on students' subsequent …

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UK executive pay: the special case of executive bonuses

Fattorusso, Jay - 2006

Executive pay research has traditionally focused on salary, severance payments and longtermincentives. A systematic rigorous empirical examination of short-term annualbonuses is lacking. To address this omission, this research empirically examines therelationship between short-term bonuses and...

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