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Local public good provision, municipal consolidation, and national transfers

Dur, Robert A. J. (contributor); Staal, Klaas (contributor) - 2007

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Social interaction, co-Worker altruism, and incentives

Dur, Robert A. J. (contributor); Sol, Joeri (contributor) - 2008

Social interaction with colleagues is an important job attribute for many workers. To attract and retain workers, managers therefore need to think about how to create and preserve high-quality co-worker relationships. This paper develops a principal-multi-agent model where agents do not only...

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Gift exchange in the workplace : money or attention?

Dur, Robert A. J. - 2008

We develop a model of manager-employee relationships where employees care more for their manager when they are more convinced that their manager cares for them. Managers can signal their altruistic feelings towards their employees in two ways: by offering a generous wage and by giving attention....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003803551

Serving the public interest in several ways : theory and empirics

Dur, Robert A. J.; Lent, Max van - 2017

We develop a model where people differ in their altruistic preferences and can serve the public interest in two ways: by making donations to charity and by taking a public service job and exerting effort on the job. Our theory predicts that people who are more altruistic are more likely to take...

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The power of a bad example : a field experiment in household garbage disposal

Dur, Robert A. J.; Vollaard, Ben A. - 2014

that both forces are at play. We conduct a natural field experiment where, in a randomly assigned part of a residential …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344850

Public sector employees : risk averse and altruistic?

Buurman, Margaretha; Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; … - 2012

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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Intrinsic motivations of public sector employees : evidence for Germany

Dur, Robert A. J.; Zoutenbier, Robin - 2013

We examine differences in altruism and laziness between public sector employees and private sector employees. Our theoretical model predicts that the likelihood of public sector employment increases with a worker's altruism, and increases or decreases with a worker's laziness depending on his...

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Working for a good cause

Dur, Robert A. J.; Zoutenbier, Robin - 2013

A rich literature in public administration has shown that public sector employees have stronger altruistic motivations than private sector employees. Recent economic theories stress the importance of mission preferences, and predict that altruistic people sort into the public sector when they...

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Employee recognition and performance : a field experiment

Bradler, Christiane; Dur, Robert A. J.; Neckermann, Susanne - 2013

This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of public … ; field experiment …

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When do teachers respond to student feedback? : evidence from a field experiment

Buurman, Margaretha; Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; … - 2020

We ran a field experiment at a large Dutch school for intermediate vocational education to examine whether the response … experiment to assess their own performance on the same items. We find a precisely estimated zero average treatment effect of … experiment is much more positive than their students. evaluations do improve significantly in response to receiving feedback. We …

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