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

This paper examines the relationship between pay inequality, economic growth, and performance in Korea. Pay inequality … relationship with economic growth and performance. For the empirical results we use panel data on the Korean manufacturing sector …

competitiveness of the environment and there is no significant difference in performance in the real-effort task across the …

fixed effects. There is only limited evidence that they are rewarded for the 'performance' of the institutions they manage …

teams and run for an hour. This allows us not only to study the individual relationship between age and performance but also … performance goes down with age, although the speed-age gradient is rather flat. Group performance goes down with age as well, but … interestingly a counterbalancing force emerges, namely team dynamics that are driven by performance of runners who enter and leave. …

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs' performance as compared to employees'? What might explain any differences … show furthermore that entrepreneurs have higher returns to education than employees (in terms of the comparable performance …

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 …

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. …

performance and post-dissolution private and financial outcomes with a selected set of comparable firms and couples. We find …