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Management Practices: Are Not For Profits Different?
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; Propper, Carol; Smith, Sarah - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
Recent studies have demonstrated the importance of good management for firm performance. Here, we focus on management … in not-for-profits (NFPs). We present a model predicting that management quality will be lower in NFPs compared to for …-profits (FPs), but that outputs may not be worse if managers are altruistic. Using a tried and tested survey of management …
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Management practices: Are not for profits different?
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; Propper, Carol; Smith, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Recent studies have demonstrated the importance of good management for firm performance. Here, we focus on management … in not-for-profits (NFPs). We present a model predicting that management quality will be lower in NFPs compared to for …-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/10009207527
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Predicting Performance of Initial Public Offering Firms: Should HRM Be in the Equation?
Welbourne, T.; Andrews, A. - Cornell - Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies - 1995
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On Selection into Public Civil Service
Boehm, Tobias; Riedel, Nadine - Saïd Business School, Oxford University - 2011
This paper investigates whether the institution of life time tenure for public sector employees affects the selection of workers into private and public sector occupation. Precisely, we argue that more generous employment protection for public sector employees may induce risk averse individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009224764
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Thanks for Nothing? Not-for-Profits and Motivated Agents
Ghatak, Maitreesh; Mueller, Hannes Felix - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
distribution of rents between management and workers, and consequently, the relative scarcity of workers plays an important role in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530355
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Thanks for nothing? Not-for-profits and motivated agents
Ghatak, Maitreesh; Mueller, Hannes - In: Journal of Public Economics 95 (2011) 1, pp. 94-105
between not-for-profit and for-profit provision, other than incentive problems, the distribution of rents between management …
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A magángazdaság kialakulása és a foglalkoztatottság
Laky, Teréz - In: Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the … XLII (1995) 7, pp. 685-709
1994ben több mint 50 ezer fővel tovább csökkent a foglalkoztatottak száma a KSH 1994. negyedik negyedévi munkaerőfelmérése szerint. A munkahelyek megszűnése 1990 óta megközelíti a másfél milliót. 1994ben éves átlagban már csak 3 millió 693 ezer fő volt kereső a 15-74 éves...
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Public-sector outsourcing
Poutvaara, Panu - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) May, pp. 1-10
Outsourcing public provision of services tends to lower labor intensity and increase its efficiency. Costs are usually lower, but quality problems can affect services like health care and residential youth care. Consumer choice has stimulated innovation in education, but the picture is ambiguous...
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Regulatory reform and the Portuguese banking labour market: two decades later
Monteiro, Natália Pimenta - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2004
We examine the impact of regulatory reforms (liberalisation/deregulation and privatisation) on the Portuguese banking earnings using both micro level and company data during the period 1982-2000. Our main finding suggests that after the introduction of both reforms, as the sector became actually...
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Why Is the Public Sector More Labor-Intensive? A Distortionary Tax Argument
Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Government-run entities are often more labor-intensive than private companies, even with identical production technologies. This need not imply slack in the public sector, but may be a rational response to its wage tax advantage over private firms. A tax-favored treatment of public production...
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