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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...
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-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 …
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colleagues, which in turn creates co-worker altruism. We study how financial incentives for productive activities can improve or …
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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 …
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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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colleagues, which in turn creates co-worker altruism. We study how financial incentives for productive activities can improve or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264500
-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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269193
colleagues, which in turn creates co-worker altruism. We study how financial incentives for productive activities can improve or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269508
We assess whether public sector employees have a stronger inclination to serve others and are more risk averse than employees in the private sector. A unique feature of our study is that we use revealed rather than stated preferences data. Respondents of a large-scale survey were offered a...
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This paper studies how altruism between managers and employees affects relational incentive contracts. To this end we … develop a simple dynamic principal-agent model where both players may have feelings of altruism or spite toward each other … that altruism undermines the credibility of a threat of dismissal but strengthens the credibility of a bonus. Among others …
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