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Managerial Talent, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Public Management

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert - 2021

brightest managers to the public sector abound. This paper studies self-selection into managerial and non-managerial positions … return to managerial ability is always highest in the private sector. As a result, relatively many of the more able managers …

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Managerial Talent, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Public Management

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert - 2008

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Incentives and Workers' Motivation in the Public Sector

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert - 2004

Civil servants have a reputation for being lazy. However, people's personal experiences with civil servants frequently run counter to this stereotype. We develop a model of an economy in which workers differ in laziness and in public service motivation, and characterise optimal incentive...

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The Desire for Impact

Dur, Robert; Glazer, Amihai - 2004

This paper explores the meaning and implications of the desire by workers for impact. We find that this impact motive can make a firm in a competitive labor market face an upward-sloping supply curve of labor, lead workers with the same characteristics but at different firms to earn different...

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On the Role of Pre-Determined Rules for HRM Policies

Martinez, Silvia Dominguez; Swank, Otto H. - 2011

of written rules, managers are too reluctant (1) to differentiate between employees on the basis of their abilities, and …

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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...

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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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Intrinsic Motivations of Public Sector Employees : Evidence for Germany

Dur, Robert; Zoutenbier, Robin - 2012

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I can't get no Satisfaction - Necessity Entrepreneurship and Procedural Utility

Block, Joern; Koellinger, Philipp - 2008

We study a unique sample of 1,547 nascent entrepreneurs in Germany and analyze which factors are associated with their self-reported satisfaction regarding their start-up. Our study identifies a new facet of procedural utility and offers new insights about the motivations and goals of nascent...

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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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