What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration …

altruism. A fall in the population growth rate, even to negative values, will imply a reduction of the interest rate and an …

altruism. We show that allowing for private provision of health care, parallel to (free) treatment in a National Health Service …

-selection and allocation decisions of agents who differ in altruism towards clients. When bureaucrats are paid flat wages, they do … of the altruism distribution. We also show how client composition affects sorting and why street-level bureaucrats often …

colleagues, which in turn creates co-worker altruism. We study how financial incentives for productive activities can improve or …

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 altruism. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we find …