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Incentives and the Sorting of Altruistic Agents into Street-Level Bureaucracies
Buurman, Margaretha; Dur, Robert - 2008
Many street-level bureaucrats (such as caseworkers) have the dual task of helping some clients, while sanctioning others. We develop a model of such a street-level bureaucracy and study the implications of its personnel policy on the self-selection and allocation decisions of agents who differ...
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Intrinsic Motivations of Public Sector Employees: Evidence for Germany
Dur, Robert; Zoutenbier, Robin - 2012
We examine differences in altruism and laziness between public sector employees and private sector employees. Our theoretical model predicts that the likelihood of public sector employment increases with a worker's altruism, and increases or decreases with a worker's laziness depending on his...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326152
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Working for a Good Cause
Dur, Robert; Zoutenbier, Robin - 2011
A rich literature in public administration has shown that public sector employees have stronger altruistic motivations than private sector employees. Recent economic theories stress the importance of mission preferences, and predict that altruistic people sort into the public sector when they...
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Management Practices: Are Not For Profits Different?
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; Propper, Carol; Smith, Sarah - 2011
-profits (FPs), but that outputs may not be worse if managers are altruistic. Using a tried and tested survey of management …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326448
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Altruism to Strangers for our Own Sake: Domestic Effects from Immigration
Tubadji, Annie; Nijkamp, Peter - 2012
This paper seeks to identify relationships between human capital and cultural capital, in the context of local labour market productivity. The key constituents of human capital, identified in the literature, are jointly examined in a close-to-reality-model. The main advantage of our model of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326304
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Gift Exchange in the Workplace
Dur, Robert - 2008
convinced that their manager cares for them. Managers can signal their altruistic feelings towards their employees in two ways … altruistic managers may offer lower wages and nevertheless build up better social-exchange relationships with their employees … than egoistic managers do. In such equilibria, a low wage signals to employees that the manager has something else to offer …
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