Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert - In: Journal of Public Economics 94 (2010) 9-10, pp. 654-660
The quality of public management is a recurrent concern in many countries. Calls to attract the economy'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...