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Performance Pay: Trends and Consequences Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2020

Keith A. Bender*
Affiliation:
University of Aberdeen, Business School and CELMR
Alex Bryson*
Affiliation:
NIESR and LSE Centre for Economic Performance

Abstract

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Type
Research Articles
Copyright
Copyright © 2013 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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