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 …

In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of … performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and sustained effects of entrepreneurs at all levels of the performance … suggest that an often overlooked factor -- individual entrepreneurs -- plays a large role in affecting firm performance. …

performance between 1984 and 2004. In a simple regression, line abandonments (reduction of network size) have positive effects on … performance but employment reductions do not. Controlling for the interaction between defensive and strategic restructuring …, however, changes the picture significantly. Employment reductions then do have positive performance effects. There are also …