Incentive contracts and total factor productivity

International Economic Review

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1033-1055

  Bental, Benjamin ^a   Demougin, Dominique ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 33746334722     PISSN: 00206598     EISSN: 14682354     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2354.2006.00405.x     Document Type: Article

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