Pay for Performance Where Output is Hard to Measure: The Case of Performance Pay for School Teachers

Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations

Volumn 15, Issue , 2006, Pages 1-34

  Marsden, David ^a   Belfield, Richard ^a  

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EID: 33846005171     PISSN: 07426186     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0742-6186(06)15010-6     Document Type: Review

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