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Research Article

Monitoring ’lemons’: why lower productivity workers are sometimes monitored more closely

Marcus Dittricha Faculty of Applied Economics, Deggendorf Institute of Technology CESifo, Deggendorf, Germany
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Silvio Städterb Department of Economics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, GermanyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 737-741 | Published online: 18 Jun 2020

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