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Are public sector workers different? : cross-European evidence from elderly workers and retirees
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2015
We investigate whether public and private sector employees differ in terms of public service motivation using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010471914
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011672030
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752996
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Worker satisfaction and worker representation : the jury is still out
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2022
This paper investigates the relationship between worker job satisfaction and workplace representation, to include works councils as well as local union agencies. The paper marks a clear shift away from the traditional focus on union membership per se because its sample of EU nations have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013473687
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Reforming an institutional culture of corruption : a model of motivated agents and collective reputation
Valasek, Justin Mattias - 2015
from a low-reputation to a high-reputation steady state: Importantly, the effect of wages on motivation depend on the … initial reputation - starting from low-reputation, higher wages crowd in motivation, while starting from high …-reputation, higher wages crowd out motivation. Therefore, a non-monotonic wage path is required to achieve a transition to the low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011384510
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Incentives, self-selection, and coordination of motivated agents for the production of social goods
Bauer, Kevin; Kosfeld, Michael; Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2021
). Agents differ in their motivation to exert social effort. Our model predicts that lowering incentives for selfish effort in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599052
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Nudging the nudger : a field experiment on the effect of performance feedback to service agents on increasing organ donor registrations
House, Julian; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Mažar, Nina - 2022
We conducted a randomized controlled trial involving nearly 700 customer-service representatives (CSRs) in a Canadian government service agency to study whether providing CSRs with performance feedback with or without peer comparison affected their subsequent organ donor registration rates....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013413486
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The desire for impact
Dur, Robert A. J. (contributor); Glazer, Amihai (contributor) - 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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Arm's length provision of public services
Bennedsen, Morten (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003624571
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Contracting out mandatory counselling and training for long-term unemployed : private for-profit or non-profit, or keep it public?
Cockx, Bart; Baert, Stijn - 2015 - Date: October 26, 2015
This study evaluates the effectiveness of contracting out mandatory publicly provided counselling and training for long-term unemployed in Flanders (Belgium) to private for-profit and non-profit organisations (FPOs and NPOs). A multivariate transition model exploits timing-of-events and novel...
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