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Managerial Talent, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Public Management

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

The quality of public management is a recurrent concern in many countries. Calls to attract the economy's best and brightest managers to the public sector abound. This paper studies self-selection into managerial and non-managerial positions in the public and private sector, using a model of a...

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Disciplining and Screening Top Executives

Martinez, Silvia Dominguez; Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

Boards of directors face the twin task of disciplining and screening executives. To perform these tasks directors do not have detailed information about executives' behaviour, and only infrequently have information about the success or failure of initiated strategies, reorganizations, mergers...

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Public Sector Employees: Risk Averse and Altruistic?

Buurman, Margaretha; Dur, Robert; Bossche, Seth Van den - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

We assess whether public sector employees have a stronger inclination to serve others and are more risk averse than employees in the private sector. A unique feature of our study is that we use revealed rather than stated preferences data. Respondents of a large-scale survey were offered a...

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Where To Go? Workers' Reasons to Quit and Intra- versus Interindustry Job Mobility

Delfgaauw, Josse - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

This paper employs survey data on the reasons to quit of Dutch job changers who entered or left a public sector job in 2001. We show that workers' reasons to quit their public sector job influence their decision to stay in or leave their industry of employment. A bad experience with, for...

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The Effect of Job Satisfaction on Job Search: Not just whether, but also where

Delfgaauw, Josse - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

Using survey data of public sector employees in the Netherlands, this paper shows that workers' satisfaction with various job domains not only affects whether but also where workers search for another job. An intuitive pattern emerges. Workers try to leave their current employer when their job...

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Wage Structure and the Incentive Effect of Promotions

Herpen, Marco van; Cools, Kees; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

as a wage determinant. We furthermore show that a promotion affects both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation significantly …, though in two different ways: An expected promotion increases extrinsic motivation whereas intrinsic motivation is highest … subsequent to a realized promotion. The relationship between extrinsic motivation and expected promotions implies that promotions …

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Reciprocity and Incentive Pay in the Workplace

Dur, Robert; Non, Arjan; Roelfsema, Hein - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

should be given weak financial incentives. In a multiple-agent setting, this problem can be resolved using promotion … significantly more likely to receive promotion incentives, while there is no such relation for individual bonus pay. …

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Subsidizing Enjoyable Education

Dur, Robert; Glazer, Amihai - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

The article is forthcoming in <A href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VFD-4PNM471-3&_user=499884&_coverDate=09%2F15%2F2007&_alid=770199288&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_cdi=6008&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_ct=1&_acct=C000024499&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=499884&md5=8492c97b78d795d5deec06a94b66422d">Labour Economics</A>.<p><P>

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Spatial Patterns of Technology Diffusion: An Empirical Analysis using TFP

Abreu, Maria; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Florax, Raymond J.G.M. - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

In this paper we employ techniques developed in spatial econometrics to analyse spatial patterns of technology diffusion, to detect clusters and to estimate theoretical models that incorporate space explicitly. These techniques correct for misspecifications resulting from the omission of spatial...

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Birth Order, Family Size and Educational Attainment

Haan, Monique de - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

This paper investigates the effect of sibship size and birth order on educational attainment, for the United States and the Netherlands. An instrumental variables approach is used to identify the effect of sibship size. Instruments for the number of children are twins at last birth and the sex...

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