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This paper studies how altruism between managers and employees affects relational incentive contracts. To this end we …
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We develop a model of manager-employee relationships where employees care more for their manager when they are more … convinced that their manager cares for them. Managers can signal their altruistic feelings towards their employees in two ways … altruistic managers may offer lower wages and nevertheless build up better social-exchange relationships with their employees …
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The quality of public management is a recurrent concern in many countries. Calls to attract the economy's best and brightest managers to the public sector abound. This paper studies self-selection into managerial and non-managerial positions in the public and private sector, using a model of a...
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Civil servants have a bad reputation of being lazy. However, citizens' personal experiences with civil servants appear to be significantly better. We develop a model of an economy in which workers differ in laziness and in public service motivation, and characterise optimal incentive contracts...
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Civil servants have a reputation for being lazy. However, people's personal experiences with civil servants frequently run counter to this stereotype. We develop a model of an economy in which workers differ in laziness and in public service motivation, and characterise optimal incentive...
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. Favouritism, employees' seniority, employees' preferences over tasks, and fairness considerations often play a role as well. Team …
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. Favouritism, employees' seniority, employees' preferences over tasks, and fairness considerations often play a role as well. Team …
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