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Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700927
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Are Public Sector Workers Different? Cross-European Evidence from Elderly Workers and Retirees
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
their public service motivation, as measured by their propensity to volunteer, using a representative sample of elderly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010781556
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Managerial Talent, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Public Management
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
service motivation. We find that, if demand for public sector output is not too high, the equilibrium return to managerial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568310
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The Politicians' Wage Gap: Insights from German Members of Parliament
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Siegloch, Sebastian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Using a unique dataset of German members of parliament with information on total earnings including outside income, this paper analyzes the politicians’ wage gap (PWG). After controlling for observable characteristics as well as accounting for selection into politics, we find a positive PWG...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839286
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Improving the Labor Market Outcomes of Minorities: The Role of Employment Quota
Prakash, Nishith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The world's biggest and arguably most aggressive form of employment based affirmative action policy for minorities … exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its … effect on labor market outcomes of two distinct minority groups. My main finding is that employment quota significantly in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015471
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Labor Market Policy Options of the Kurdistan Regional Government
Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
providing knowledge about the nature of (un)employment and current policy measures, a number policy measures are proposed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763641
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Moonlighting Politicians: Motivation Matters!
Fedele, Alessandro; Naticchioni, Paolo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In this paper we study optimal choices of self-selection into politics and commitment once in office on the part of citizens with heterogeneous abilities and heterogeneous motivations. Politicians can moonlight, i.e., they can work in the market sector while appointed in parliament. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163471
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Job Satisfaction and Self-Selection into the Public or Private Sector: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Danzer, Natalia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Are public sector jobs better than private sector jobs? To answer this question, this paper investigates observed differences in job satisfaction between public- and private-sector workers and disentangles the effect of worker sorting from the one caused by sector-specific job characteristics. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884142
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The Determinants of Earnings Inequalities: Panel Data Evidence from South Africa
Kerr, Andrew; Teal, Francis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
sector wage setting and trade unions, in determining earnings differences across different types of employment. To do this we … differentials across different types of employment. Our results suggest that human capital and individual ability explain much of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010839295
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Are Public Sector Workers Underpaid in Russia? Estimating the Public-Private Wage Gap
Gimpelson, Vladimir; Lukiyanova, Anna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The paper starts with discussing institutional framework for public sector wage setting in Russia. Given that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762135