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Performance Pay: Trends and Consequences Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2020

Keith A. Bender  and
Alex Bryson
Keith A. Bender*
Affiliation:
University of Aberdeen, Business School and CELMR
Alex Bryson*
Affiliation:
NIESR and LSE Centre for Economic Performance
*
E-mail: kabender@abdn.ac.uk
E-mail: a.bryson@niesr.ac.uk
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National Institute Economic Review , Volume 226 , November 2013 , pp. R1 - R3
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Copyright © 2013 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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