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Higher Wages, Lower Pay : Public vs. Private Sector Compensation in Peru
Coppola, Andrea - 2017
significant and positive when only monetary wages are taken into account. However, when in-kind payments and bonuses are included …
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Was Weber Right? The Effects of Pay for Ability and Pay for Performance on Pro-Social Motivation, Ability and Effort in the Public Sector
Banuri, Sheheryar - 2017
This paper examines the effects of pecuniary compensation on the ability and motivation of individuals inorganizations with non-pecuniary or pro-social missions. In particular, the paper compares flat pay systems, unrelated with ability or effort, to two other systems that are considered...
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Public Sector Size and Performance Management : A Case-Study of Post-Revolution Tunisia
Brockmeyer, Anne - 2017
This paper examines public sector size and performance management in post-revolution Tunisia, drawing on macro-empirical, legal, and qualitative analyses. The paper first shows that public sector employment figures and the wage bill have increased significantly since the 2011 revolution, but...
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Tailoring Civil Service Pay Analysis and Advice to Context : Challenges, Approaches, and the Case of Lao Pdr
Barma, Naazneen - 2017
The adequacy of compensation for government workers and the affordability of the public sector wage bill are important concerns for many developing countries. Suitable pay is considered a necessary -- albeit far from sufficient -- condition for attracting and retaining skilled public sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973601
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Intrinsic Motivation, Effort and the Call to Public Service
Banuri, Sheheryar - 2017
Pay schemes in the public sector aim to attract motivated, high-ability applicants. A nascent literature has found positive effects of higher pay on ability and no or slightly positive effects on motivation. This paper revisits this issue with a novel subject pool, students destined for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973663
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Models of Public Service Reform : A Problem-Solving Approach
McCourt, Willy - 2017
employment reform; New Public Management; integrity and corruption reforms; and "bottom-up" reforms. The paper seeks an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974440
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Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials and Returns to Education in Djibouti
Seshan, Ganesh K. - 2016
Do public sector workers earn a wage premium in Djibouti and are the returns to education different across the sectors? The authors estimate private and public sector wage earnings using 1996 household survey data, while controlling for selectivity using Heckman's two stage approach. They find...
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Corruption and Productivity : Firm-Level Evidence from the Beeps Survey
De Rosa, Donato - 2017
corruption on productivity. Corruption is narrowly defined as the occurrence of informal payments to government officials to ease … grease" hypothesis by investigating whether corruption may increase productivity by helping reduce the time tax on firms … corruption is more prevalent and the legal framework is weaker, bribery is more harmful for firm-level productivity …
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Crony Capitalism in Ukraine : Relationship between Political Connectedness and Firms'Performance
Balabushko, Oleksii - 2018
' political connectedness and their economic performance in Ukraine. First, it estimates the share of politically connected firms … in Ukraine's economy. Second, the study looks at how different the performance of politically connected firms is from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912357
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Are Public Sector Workers in Developing Countries Overpaid? Evidence from a New Global Data Set
Gindling, T. H. - 2019
This paper examines the public sector wage premium using nationally representative household surveys from 91 countries. The public sector generally pays a wage premium compared to all private sector salaried employees, but the size of the premium is sensitive to the choice of the private sector...
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