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Incentives and workers' motivation in the public sector

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert - 2004

Civil servants have a bad reputation of being lazy. However, citizens' personal experiences with civil servants appear to be significantly better. We develop a model of an economy in which workers differ in laziness and in public service motivation, and characterise optimal incentive contracts...

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The desire for impact

Dur, Robert A. J.; Glazer, Amihai - 2005

This paper explores the meaning and implications of the desire by workers for impact. We find that this impact motive can make firms in a competitive labor market act as monopsonists, lead workers with the same characteristics but at different firms to earn different wages, may alleviate the...

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Sustainable social spending in a greying economy with stagnant public services: Baumol's cost disease revisited

van der Ploeg, Frederick - 2006

Baumol's cost disease states that relatively high productivity growth in manufacturing induces a steady increase in the relative price of human services. If demand for these services is inelastic or manufactured goods are necessities, the budget share of these services inexorably rises over time...

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Numbers Tell, Words Sell

Thaler, Michael; Toma, Mattie; Wang, Victor Yaneng - 2024

When communicating numeric estimates with policymakers, journalists, or the general public, experts must choose between using numbers or natural language. We run two experiments to study whether experts strategically use language to communicate numeric estimates in order to persuade receivers....

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The German Local Population Database (GPOP), 1871 to 2019

Roesel, Felix - 2022

-collected and assembled from more than 50 sources. The data reflect 150 years of regional development and disparities in Germany …

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Estimating the Effects of Trade Agreements: Lessons from 60 Years of Methods and Data

Larch, Mario; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2023

quantify their effects, and also in terms of more and higher quality data. The objective of this paper is to trace the … evolution of the methods and data developments in the RTA literature, from Tinbergen's very first exploration until today, and …

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Inaccurate age and sex data in the census PUMS files: Evidence and implications

Trent Alexander, J.; Davern, Michael; Stevenson, Betsey - 2010

-specific population estimates generated from the PUMS files differ by as much as 15% from counts in published data tables. Moreover, an …-product of the misapplication of a newer generation of disclosure avoidance procedures carried out on the data. The resulting … errors in the public use data could significantly impact studies of people ages 65 and older, particularly analyses of …

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Reactivity in Economic Science

Frey, Bruno S. - 2017

remains even in the age of Artificially Intelligent Learning Machines and Big Data. Many academic economists take it as a … social science, namely reactivity, i.e. human beings systematically respond to economic data, and in particular to …

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Facebook Shadow Profiles

Aguiar, Luis; Peukert, Christian; Schaefer, Maximilian; … - 2022

Data is often at the core of digital products and services, especially when related to online advertising. This has … made data protection and privacy a major policy concern. When surfing the web, consumers leave digital traces that can be …

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Does Envelopment through Data Advantage Call for New Regulation?

Langus, Gregor; Lipatov, Vilen - 2021

Envelopment is an effective form of market entry that facilitates competition among platforms. Nevertheless, many commentators have focused on the anticompetitive potential of envelopment, and some have argued for regulation of platforms because of that concern. These calls for regulation are...

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