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Public Employment Redux
Garibaldi, Pietro - 2020
The public sector hires disproportionately more educated workers. Using US microdata, we show that the education bias also holds within industries and in two thirds of 3-digit occupations. To rationalize this finding, we propose a model of private and public employment based on two features....
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Recruitment, Effort, and Retention Effects of Performance Contracts for Civil Servants : Experimental Evidence from Rwandan Primary Schools
Leaver, Clare - 2020
This paper reports on a two-tiered experiment designed to separately identify the selection and effort margins of pay-for-performance (P4P). At the recruitment stage, teacher labor markets were randomly assigned to a pay- for-percentile or fixed-wage contract. Once recruits were placed, an...
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Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2021
The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire … extent of rents in the public bureaucracy. The extent of rents is determined by differences in institutional constraints and … correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tame bureaucracy …
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Roma and Bureaucrats : A Field Experiment on Ethnic and Socioeconomic Discrimination
Mikula, Štepán; Montag, Josef - 2023
This paper tests for discriminatory treatment of the Roma minority by public officials in the Czech Republic at the stage of initial contact preceding a potential application for unemployment benefit. Our correspondence experiment facilitates testing for the presence of each of two intertwined...
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Bribery, Hold-Up and Bureaucratic Structure
Bennett, John - 2018
We analyze the provision of infrastructure by a foreign investor when the domestic bureaucracy is corrupt, but puts … investment has been sunk, the bureaucracy may hold up the investor, using the threat of expropriation to demand a lower final …
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Corruption and Bureaucratic Structure in a Developing Economy
Bennett, John - 2007
's bureaucracy, which can be centralized or decentralized, and characterize the quot;corruptibilityquot; of bureaucrats in each case …
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The Anti-Corruption Campaign and the Inter-Generational Transmission of Working in Bureaucracy : Evidence from China
Chen, Shuai; Ge, Erqi - 2022
. First, we conduct a difference-in-differences analysis to compare changes in the probability of working in bureaucracy after … points more likely to work in bureaucracy, and that positive selection on human capital can explain only 12 25 percent of … the campaign, or changes in perceptions of bureaucracy …
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Bureaucratic Delay, Local-Level Monitoring, and Delivery of Small Infrastructure Projects : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bolivia
Yanez-Pagans, Monica - 2012
This paper examines bureaucratic delay within the allocation of small infrastructure projects by sub-municipal governments in Bolivia, and it presents a randomized field experiment designed to improve public service delivery by promoting voice, transparency, and accountability among grassroots...
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Non-Profit Organizations in a Bureaucratic Environment
Grout, Paul A.; Schnedler, Wendelin - 2021
How does the environment of an organization influence whether workers voluntarily provide effort? We study the power relationship between a non-profit unit (e.g. university department, NGO, health trust), where workers care about the result of their work, and a bureaucrat, who supplies some...
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Are Public Sector Workers Underpaid in Russia? Estimating the Public-Private Wage Gap
Gimpelson, Vladimir - 2011
The paper starts with discussing institutional framework for public sector wage setting in Russia. Given that individual choice of the sector is endogenous to wages, the authors recommend alternative econometric techniques for the public-private wage gap estimation. Applying switching regression...
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