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Does public sector outsourcing decrease public employment? : empirical evidence from OECD countries
Potrafke, Niklas - 2018
I examine the extent to which public sector outsourcing relates to public employment in OECD countries. I use new panel data on public sector outsourcing. The sample includes 26 countries over the period 2009-2015. Contrary to common expectations, the results do not suggest that public sector...
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A partial identification approach to identifying the determinants of human capital accumulation: an application to teachers
Mehta, Nirav - 2022
This paper views teacher quality through the human capital perspective. Teacher quality exhibits substantial growth over teachers’ careers, but why it improves is not well understood. I use a human capital production function nesting On-the-Job-Training (OJT) and Learning-by-Doing (LBD) and...
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Social exclusion and optimal redistribution
Aronsson, Thomas; Bastani, Spencer; Tayibov, Khayyam - 2021
We integrate social exclusion, operationalized in terms of long-term unemployment, into the theory of optimal redistributive taxation. Our results show how an optimal mix of education policy, public employment, and support to the unemployed, in conjunction with optimal income taxation,...
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What accounts for international differences in student performance? : a re-examination using PISA data
Fuchs, Thomas; Woessmann, Ludger - 2004
We use the PISA student-level achievement database to estimate international education production functions. Student characteristics, family backgrounds, home inputs, resources, teachers and institutions are all significantly related to math, science and reading achievement. Our models account...
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The social cost of contacts : theory and evidence for the COVID-19
Quaas, Martin F.; Meya, Jasper; Schenk, Hanna; Bos, Björn - 2020
Building on the epidemiological SIR model we present an economic model with heterogeneous individuals deriving utility from social contacts creating infection risks. Focusing on social distancing of individuals susceptible to an infection we theoretically analyze the gap between private and...
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Do management practices matter in further education?
McNally, Sandra; Schmidt, Luis; Valero, Anna - 2022
institutions. We design and conduct the world’s first management practices survey in these colleges (based on the World Management … controls suggest that structured management matters for educational outcomes (e.g. upper secondary qualifications), especially … percentile of management practices to the 90th, this would be associated with 8% higher probability of achieving a good high …
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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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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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