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Love the job... or the patient? : task vs. mission-based motivations in health care
Banuri, Sheheryar; Keefer, Philip; De Walque, Damien - 2018
A booming literature has argued that mission-based motives are a central feature of mission-oriented labor markets. This paper shifts the focus to task-based motivation and finds that it yields significantly more effort than mission-based motivation. Moreover, in the presence of significant task...
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On selection into public civil service
Böhm, Tobias; Riedel, Nadine - 2011
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When the victor cannot claim the spoils : institutional incentives for professionalizing patronage states
Schuster, Christian - 2016
executives instead favor patronage -political discretion- in public employment. This paper proposes and tests an original theory … to explain when executives forsake patronage for merit. The theory exploits exogenous variation in the institutional … design of patronage states. In some, constitutions and budget laws monopolize patronage powers in the executive; in others …
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Friday morning fever : evidence from a randomized experiment on sick leave monitoring in the public sector
Boeri, Tito; Di Porto, Edoardo; Naticchioni, Paolo; … - 2021
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Does diversity matter for health? : experimental evidence from Oakland
Alsan, Marcella; Garrick, Owen; Graziani, Grant - 2018
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The impacts of Covid-19 illnesses on workers
Goda, Gopi Shah; Soltas, Evan J. - 2022
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Knowing the right person in the right place : political connections and economic growth
Bellettini, Giorgio; Berti Ceroni, Carlotta; Prarolo, … - 2009
We develop a model of Schumpeterian growth where political connections with long-term politicians can be exploited by low-quality producers to defend their monopoly position and prevent innovation and entry of high-quality competitors. Through personal relationships developed with the incumbent...
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Politics in the family : nepotism and the hiring decisions of Italian firms
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Manacorda, Marco - 2016
In this paper we investigate the effect of family connections to politicians on individuals' labor market outcomes. We combine data for Italy over almost three decades from longitudinal social security records on a random sample of around 1 million private sector employees with the universe of...
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Pyramid capitalism : cronyism, regulation, and firm productivity in Egypt
Diwan, Ishac; Keefer, Philip; Schiffbauer, Marc - 2016
Using a large, original database of 385 politically connected firms under the Mubarak regime in Egypt, we document for the first time the negative impact of cronyism on economic growth. In the early 2000s, a policy shift in Egypt led to the expansion of crony activities into new, previously...
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Social policy in Venezuela : bucking neoliberalism or unsustainable clientelism
Buxton, Julia - 2014
This paper highlights the institutions, actors and processes that have driven social policy provision and health care in Venezuela during distinct political periods. The historical detail contextualises a protracted struggle over the distribution of the countryś oil wealth. The paper concurs...
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