-sectional data from Germany on self-reported altruism, sector of employment, and donations to charity. In addition, we use panel data …

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 altruism. Using questionnaire data from the German Socio-Economic Panel …

; extra-role behavior ; sabotage ; gift exchange ; social exchange ; conditional altruism ; reciprocity ; signaling game …

-selection and allocation decisions of agents who differ in altruism towards clients. When bureaucrats are paid flat wages, they do … of the altruism distribution. We also show how client composition affects sorting and why street-level bureaucrats often … experience an overload of clients. -- Street-level bureaucracy ; sorting ; altruism ; personnel policy ; pay-for-performance …

motivation ; risk aversion ; revealed preferences data …

colleagues, which in turn creates co-worker altruism. We study how financial incentives for productive activities can improve or …. -- Social interaction ; altruism ; incentive contracts ; co-worker satisfaction …

among workers in less-developed countries. -- public service motivation ; altruism ; mission preferences ; sorting ; World … reinforcing role of altruism and mission alignment in sorting to the public sector, particularly among highly educated workers and …

This paper studies how altruism between managers and employees affects relational incentive contracts. To this end we … develop a simple dynamic principal-agent model where both players may have feelings of altruism or spite toward each other … that altruism undermines the credibility of a threat of dis- missal but strengthens the credibility of a bonus. Among …

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