Who pays for performance?

International Journal of Manpower

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 8-29

  Barth, Erling ^a,b   Bratsberg, Bernt ^a,c   Hægeland, Torbjørn ^a   Raaum, Oddbjørn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b IZA   (Germany)

^c KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compensation; Norway; Payments; Performance related pay; Profits

Indexed keywords

EID: 40849139605     PISSN: 01437720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01437720810861985     Document Type: Article

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