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Personalities and Public Sector Performance : Evidence from a Health Experiment in Pakistan

Callen, Michael - 2015

This paper provides evidence that the personalities of policymakers matter for policy. Three results support the relevance of personalities for policy. First, doctors with higher Big Five and Perry Public Sector Motivation scores attend work more and falsify inspection reports less. Second,...

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Can Public Sector Wage Bills Be Reduced?

Cahuc, Pïerre - 2012

This paper analyzes the relation between public wage bills and public deficits in the OECD countries from 1995 to 2009. The paper shows that fiscal drift episodes, characterized by simultaneous increases in the GDP shares of public wage bills and budget deficits, are more frequent during booms...

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Estimating the Effect of Leaders on Public Sector Productivity : The Case of School Principals

Branch, Gregory F. - 2012

Although much has been written about the importance of leadership in the determination of organizational success, there is little quantitative evidence due to the difficulty of separating the impact of leaders from other organizational components - particularly in the public sector. Schools...

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Public Sector Personnel Economics : Wages, Promotions, and the Competence-Control Trade-off

Cameron, Charles M. - 2016

We model personnel policies in public agencies, examining how wages and promotion standards can partially offset a fundamental contracting problem: the inability of public sector workers to contract on performance, and the inability of political masters to contract on forbearance from meddling....

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Performance Information and Personnel Decisions in the Public Sector : The Case of School Principals

Cullen, Julie Berry - 2016

Firms and other organizations establish the criteria under which employees will be judged and the performance measures made available to supervisors, the board of directors and other stakeholders, and these structures almost certainly influence behavior and organization outcomes. Any divergence...

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From Scarcity to Abundance : Government and Private Initiatives to Manage the Allocation of N95 Masks in the U.S. During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Joskow, Paul L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper examines the structure, behavior and performance of the N95 respirator market in the U.S. before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-early 2022). It focuses on the behavior and performance of government and private sector organizations in the allocation of scarce supplies of N95...

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The Labor Market Effects of Occupational Licensing in the Public Sector

Kleiner, Morris M.; Wang, Wenchen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

In the U.S., occupational licensing is more prevalent in the public sector than in the private sector, but the influence of occupational regulation for public sector workers has not been analyzed in detail. Our study initially examines the probability of a licensed worker selecting into the...

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Deals versus rules : policy implementation uncertainty and why firms hate it

Hallward-Driemeier, Mary - 2010

"Firms in Africa report "regulatory and economic policy uncertainty" as a top constraint to their growth. We argue that often firms in Africa do not cope with policy rules, rather they face deals; firm-specific policy actions that can be influenced by firm actions (e.g. bribes) and...

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Plata y Plomo : How Higher Wages Expose Politicians to Criminal Violence

Pulejo, Massimo; Querubín Borrero, Pablo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Adequate wages are an important tool to shield public officials from special interests and corruption. But what is the … significantly more likely to prevent corruption in public procurement, a key area of illicit interactions between the state and … limit corruption, but also foster the use of violence as an alternative tool to influence policymaking …

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Secrets in Asset Purchases : Estimating the Unofficial Incomes of Officials

Deng, Yongheng; Wei, Shang-jin; Wu, Jing; Zhang, Rongjie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

the recent anti-corruption campaign. An analysis of a separate cross-city dataset corroborates the key conclusion …

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