Incentives and careers in organizations
Cambridge University Press eBooksPublished 12 December 2008
Robert Gibbons
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Abstract
An outsider might be surprised to learn that modern labor economics has little to say about activities inside firms. After all, is not work (i.e., what workers do once they go through a firm's doors) one of the field's most natural areas of inquiry?
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