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Bureaucratic rents and life satisfaction

Lüchinger, Simon (contributor); Meier, Stephan (contributor) - 2006

The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total...

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Bonus payments and reference point violations

Ockenfels, Axel; Sliwka, Dirk; Werner, Peter - 2010

We investigate how bonus payments affect satisfaction and performance of managers in a large, multinational company. We …

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Effects of training on employee suggestions and promotions in an internal labor market

Pfeifer, Christian; Janssen, Simon; Yang, Philip; … - 2011

We evaluate the effects of employer-provided formal training on employee suggestions for productivity improvements and on promotions among male blue-collar workers. More than twenty years of personnel data of four entry cohorts in a German company allow us to address issues such as unobserved...

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The performance of performance standards

Heckman, James J.; Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2002

This paper examines the performance of the JTPA performance system, a widely emulated model for inducing efficiency in government organizations. We present a model of how performance incentives may distort bureaucratic decisions. We define cream skimming within the model. Two major empirical...

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Education research and administrative data

Figlio, David N.; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2015 - Forthcoming in: Handbook of the Economics of Education, Volume 5

Thanks to extraordinary and exponential improvements in data storage and computing capacities, it is now possible to collect, manage, and analyze data in magnitudes and in manners that would have been inconceivable just a short time ago. As the world has developed this remarkable capacity to...

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Unions and the labor market for managers

DiNardo, John E.; Hallock, Kevin F.; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2000

We examine the relationship between the employment and compensation of managers and CEOs and the presence of a … monitoring, which requires more managers. The model also assumes rent sharing between workers, managers and the owners of the … firm. Unions, by redistributing rents towards the workers, lead to lower employment and lower pay for managers. Using a …

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