Piece rates for professors

Economics Letters

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 285-287

  Heywood, John S ^a   Wei, Xiangdong ^b   Ye, Guangliang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Difference in difference; Piece rates; Research productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053171993     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2011.08.005     Document Type: Article

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