Earnings Progression, Human Capital and Incentives: Theory and Evidence
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Keywords
personnel economics; explicit incentives; career concern incentives; performance; earnings dynamics;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J30 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - General
- J41 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Labor Contracts
- M50 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - General
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HRM-2010-04-17 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-LAB-2010-04-17 (Labour Economics)
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