Sorting into Contests: Evidence from Production Contracts
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hiring; incentives; cardinal tournaments;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- M52 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects
- J43 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Agricultural Labor Markets
- D86 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Economics of Contract Law
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