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 …

performance, even with quite large teams. We examine whether this effect was due to increased effort from workers or strategic … task reallocation. We find that the provision of financial incentives did raise individual performance but that managers …

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 …

performance, even with quite large teams. We examine whether this effect was due to increased effort from workers or strategic … task reallocation. We find that the provision of financial incentives did raise individual performance but that managers …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot …, 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 workers …

against our data. We find that team size affects the impact of the incentive scheme upon performance. Moreover, while the …

performance, even with quite large teams. We examine whether this effect was due to increased effort from workers or strategic … task reallocation. We find that the provision of financial incentives did raise individual performance but that managers …