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Incentives and workers' motivation in the public sector : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, May 2004

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J. - 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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Do higher government wages reduce corruption? : evidence based on a novel dataset

Le, Van-ha; Haan, Jakob de; Dietzenbacher, Erik - 2013

government wages as used in previous research. When the relationship between government wages and corruption is modeled to vary … with the level of income, we find that the impact of government wages on corruption is strong at relatively low …-income levels. -- corruption ; government wages ; government pay policy ; efficiency wages …

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The impact of an unexpected wage cut on corruption : evidence from a "Xeroxed" exam

Borcan, Oana; Lindahl, Mikael; Mitrut, Andreea - 2012 - This draft: 2012-11-29

This paper aims to understand how corruption responds to an income loss. We exploit an unexpected 25% wage cut incurred …-stake exam taking place shortly after the wage announcement. To measure corruption we compare changes in exam outcomes from 2009 … induced better exam outcomes in public than in private schools and we attribute this difference to increased corruption by …

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Political alignment and bureaucratic pay

Fiva, Jon H.; Geys, Benny; Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; … - 2019

We study the private gains to bureaucrats from their political alignment with elected politicians. Whereas existing studies generally rely on proxies for politician-bureaucrat political alignment, a rare feature of our data allows measuring it directly since 27% of bureaucrats ran for political...

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Employment in the public sector

Forni, Lorenzo; Giordano, Raffaela - 2003

This paper presents a model of wage-employment determination in private and public sectors, which allows us to analyze the effects of different institutional arrangements on labor market equilibria. In particular, it focuses on how different degrees of coordination in decision processes affect...

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Do left-wing governments decrease wage inequality among civil servants? : empirical evidence from the German states

Kauder, Björn; Krause, Manuela; Potrafke, Niklas - 2020

We investigate whether left-wing governments decrease wage inequality among civil servants. The data is based on salaries of civil servants in the German states. Since a reform in 2006, German state governments are allowed to design salaries of civil servants. We employ encompassing data for pay...

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When unemployment disappears : Ireland in the 1990s

Walsh, Brendan M. - 2003

This paper examines the behaviour of the Irish labour market during the 1990s. Over the course of the decade the Irish unemployment rate fell from the highest to the lowest in the EU. Over the same period a record number of jobs was created and all the indicators suggest that full employment was...

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The impact of public employment : evidence from Bonn

Becker, Sascha O.; Heblich, Stephan; Sturm, Daniel - 2018

private employment through higher wages and house prices, but also generates potential productivity and amenity spillovers. We …

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Strengthening fragile states : evidence from mobile salary payments in Afghanistan

Blumenstock, Joshua E.; Callen, Michael; Faikina, Anastasiia - 2023

Building state capacity is uniquely challenging in fragile states. We report results from a randomized evaluation of a major Afghan government initiative to increase capacity by modernizing its payroll. The reform, which required teachers to biometrically register and receive salary payments via...

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The effect of public corruption on Covid-19 fatality rate : a cross-country examination

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2021

This paper evaluates whether the level of public corruption influences COVID-19 case fatality rates. Using cross …-section data, including 64 countries and multiple regression techniques, we find that the level of corruption is positively and …

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