Carrots or sticks? A social custom viewpoint on worker effort

European Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 297-310

  Chang, Juin Jen ^a   Lai, Ching Chong ^b,c  

^a FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c ACADEMIA SINICA   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Efficiency wage; J41; Monitoring; Social custom

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006966363     PISSN: 01762680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0176-2680(99)00007-5     Document Type: Article

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