overestimated. -- Incentives ; altruism ; public good provision ; pro-social behavior ; public health …

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 …

mission-oriented organizations is important to explain empirical findings of lower wages and high motivation in the latter …. -- motivation ; effort provision ; contract choice ; sorting ; lab experiment …

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

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 …

is shown to potentially reduce social welfare. -- altruism ; rewards ; motivation ; esteem ; crowding out …We develop a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns …

majors and non-majors are less likely to contribute than comparable men. -- Altruism ; public goods …