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Both the quantity and quality of education and training in Britain are being comparedunfavourably with arrangements in other countries at a time when public expenditure isfacing the most stringent constraints. This paper starts from the presumption thatimprovements in the quality and quantity of...
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We experimentally test whether intentional and observable discriminatorypay of symmetric agents in the Winter (2004) game causes lowpaid agents to reduce effort. We control for intentionality of wages byeither allowing a principal to determine wages or by implementing arandom process. Our main...
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The 2003 reforms of the Common Agricultural policy of the European Unionintroduced decoupled income transfers as the most prominent policy instrument.However, member states were given substantial discretion over the degree and timingof the reform implementation. As a result, different...
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In 2009 Iowa farmers had the opportunity to enroll in a new revenue support programcalled ACRE. A survey showed that those who did enroll desired more risk protection andbelieved that payments from ACRE would exceed the value of direct payments forfeited.Operators who did not enroll said the...
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In the context of U.S. farm policy, this paper analyzes the effect that expectationsabout base acreage and yield updating in future policies have on a farmer’s productiondecisions in the presence of price, yield and policy uncertainty. We consider a riskaverse farmer producing a single crop...
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The objectives of this study were as follows (1) determine the extent to which late payment is affecting businesses in the UK and how this has changed in ten years; (2) to provide as assessment of credit granting behaviour among UK businesses during the last ten years; (3) to assess the...
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This study uses panel data describing about 6,500 employees in a large international companyto study the incentive effects of performance related pay. The company uses two performancerelated remuneration mechanisms. One is an individual "surprise" bonus payment. The other isa more structured...
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