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Is Leisure a Normal Good? Evidence from the European Parliament
Mocan, Naci; Altindag, Duha T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Prior to July 2009, salaries of the members of the European Parliament were paid by their home country and there were substantial salary differences between parliamentarians representing different EU countries. Starting in July 2009, the salary of each member of the Parliament is pegged to 38.5%...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278190
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Trust the Police? Self-Selection of Motivated Agents into the German Police Force
Friebel, Guido; Kosfeld, Michael; Thielmann, Gerd - 2016
We conduct experimental games with police applicants in Germany to investigate whether intrinsically motivated agents self-select into public service. Our focus is on trustworthiness and the willingness to enforce norms as key dimensions of intrinsic motivation in the police context. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653138
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Bureaucratic rents and life satisfaction
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267660
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Is leisure a normal good? Evidence from the European Parliament
Mocan, Naci; Altindag, Duha T. - 2011
Prior to July 2009, salaries of the members of the European Parliament were paid by their home country and there were substantial salary differences between parliamentarians representing different EU countries. Starting in July 2009, the salary of each member of the Parliament is pegged to 38.5%...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286268
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Campaign Connections
Bazzi, Samuel; Labanca, Claudio - 2023
This paper explores the labor market returns to working on a victorious political campaign. Using unique administrative data from Brazil, we track the earnings and employment of campaign workers before and after close elections spanning nearly 20 years. We identify sizable returns to working for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377069
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Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700927
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Can Value-Added Measures of Teacher Performance Be Trusted?
Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; Wooldridge, Jeffrey M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We investigate whether commonly used value-added estimation strategies can produce accurate estimates of teacher effects. We estimate teacher effects in simulated student achievement data sets that mimic plausible types of student grouping and teacher assignment scenarios. No one method...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011156471
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How do Principals Assign Students to Teachers? Finding Evidence in Administrative Data and the Implications for Value-added
Dieterle, Steven G.; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
researchers and widely contested by teachers' unions. A key concern is the extent to which nonrandom sorting of students to … important to assess the extent to which evidence of sorting can be found in the large administrative data sets used for VAM … estimation. Using a large longitudinal data set from an anonymous state, we find evidence that a nontrivial amount of sorting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252291
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Career Changers in Teaching Jobs: A Case Study Based on the Swiss Vocational Education System
Hof, Stefanie; Strupler, Mirjam; Wolter, Stefan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This study investigates the determinants and motives of professionals who change career to vocational teaching. The framework for this study is the Swiss vocational education system, which requires that teachers of vocational subjects must have a prior career in that specific field. Thus, to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009144853
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Does the Precision and Stability of Value-Added Estimates of Teacher Performance Depend on the Types of Students They Serve?
Stacy, Brian; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper investigates how the precision and stability of a teacher's value-added estimate relates to the characteristics of the teacher's students. Using a large administrative data set and a variety of teacher value-added estimators, it finds that the stability over time of teacher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700689