Monetäre Leistungsanreize sind ein politisch hochbrisantes Thema - insbesondere unter Bedingungen wachsender Finanznot öffentlicher Haushalte und anhaltendem Personalabbau. In dieser Situation ist das Vorhaben, Tarifentgelte im öffentlichen Sektor zukünftig stärker nach Leistung zu...

Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht am Beispiel der Stadtstaaten Berlin und Hamburg konkrete Handlungsoptionen des strategischen Personalmanagements angesichts unausgewogener Altersstrukturen in der Landesverwaltung unter den Rahmenbedingungen des öffentlichen Dienstes. Vor dem Hintergrund einer...

In der Öffentlichen Verwaltungwird bereits seit den 1970er Jahren über einen stärkeren Leistungsbezug der Bezahlung diskutiert. Erst 1997 schaffte das Dienstrechtsreformgesetz aber die rechtliche Grundlage dafür, besondere Leistungen von Beamten zusätzlich zur fixen Besoldung materiell zu...

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...

Kenya’s civil service expanded rapidly after independence, becoming by far the largest in East Africa. Following economic decline since the 1980s, however, it became difficult for the government to sustain a large and inefficient public sector. To raise efficiency, extensive civil service...

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...

A key input to inventive activity is human capital. Hence it is important to understand the monetary incentives of inventors. We estimate the effect of patented inventions on individual earnings by linking data on U.S. patents and their inventors to Finnish employer-employee data. Returns are...

Questions about compensation structures and incentive effects of pay-for-performance components are important for firms' Human Resource Management as well as for economics in general and labor economics in particular. This paper provides scarce insider econometric evidence on the structure and...