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Referrals.
Specialization requires that workers deal with some valuable opportunities themselves and refer other, possibly unverifiable, opportunities to other workers. How do markets and organizations ensure the matching of opportunities with talent in the presence of informational asymmetries about their value? The cost of providing incentives for effort in this context is that they increase the risk of...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: British Dental Journal
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0007-0610,1476-5373
DOI: 10.1038/s41415-019-0951-x