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High-Powered Performance Pay and Crowding Out of Non-Monetary Motives
Huffman, David - 2018
A previous literature cautions that paying workers for performance might crowd out non-monetary motives to work hard. Empirical evidence from the field, however, has been based on between-subjects designs that are best suited for detecting crowding out due to low-powered incentives. High-powered...
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Crowding-Out or Crowding-In? Heterogeneous Effects of Insurance on Solidarity
Landmann, Andreas - 2020
We analyze whether the availability of formal insurance products affects informal solidarity transfers in two independent behavioral experiments in the Philippines. The first experiment allows for communication, non-anonymity and unrestricted transfers. The second experiment mimics a laboratory...
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Differences in Positions Along a Hierarchy : Counterfactuals Based on an Assignment Model
Gobillon, Laurent - 2017
We propose an assignment model in which positions along a hierarchy are attributed to individuals depending on their characteristics. Our theoretical framework can be used to study differences in assignment and outcomes across groups and we show how it can motivate decomposition and...
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Co-Movements between Public and Private Wages in the EU : Which Factors Play a Role?
Marzinotto, Benedicta - 2016
This paper assesses the relationship between government and manufacturing wages. We find that the long-run relation between the two wages is stronger when the government is a large employer. Manufacturing wages are better aligned with productivity and unemployment when public wages, to which...
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The Impact of Public Employment : Evidence from Bonn
Becker, Sascha O. - 2018
federal government from Berlin to Bonn in the wake of the Second World War as a source of exogenous variation. To guide our …
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Managerial Talent, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Public Management
Delfgaauw, Josse - 2010
The quality of public management is a recurrent concern in many countries. Calls to attract the economyﾒs best and brightest managers to the public sector abound. This paper studies self-selection into managerial positions in the public and private sector, using a model of a perfectly...
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Public versus Private Provision of Daycare : An Experimental Evaluation
Viitanen, Tarja K. - 2021
This paper provides experimental estimates of the impact of a voucher for private care within the Nordic system of universal provision of public care. The private daycare voucher acted as a significant boost for new daycare entrepreneurs to enter the market thus increasing the overall daycare...
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Public Support for Innovation, Intangible Investment and Productivity Growth in the UK Market Sector
Haskel, Jonathan - 2013
. First, there have been many recent calls for the (relatively new) UK R&D subsidy to be extended to other research activities … research councils, universities, and government undertaken work on civil and military R&D. To evaluate these questions we use … from public R&D spend on research councils, and (c) no evidence of market sector spillovers from public spending on civil …
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How Do Young Innovative Companies Innovate?
Pellegrino, Gabriele - 2009
This paper discusses the determinants of product innovation in young innovative companies (YICs) by looking at in-house and external R&D and at the acquisition of external technology in embodied and disembodied components. These input-output relationships are tested on a sample of innovative...
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The Job Creation Effect of R&D Expenditures
Bogliacino, Francesco - 2010
In this study we use a unique database covering 25 manufacturing and service sectors for 16 European countries over the period 1996-2005, for a total of 2,295 observations, and apply GMM-SYS panel estimations of a demand-for-labour equation augmented with technology. We find that R&D...
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