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Managerial talent, motivation, and self-selection into public management
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264466
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Managerial talent, motivation, and self-selection into public management
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert - 2010
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 positions in the public and private sector, using a model of a perfectly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269669
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Managerial Talent, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Public Management
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325712
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A distributional analysis of the public-private wage differential in India
Azam, Mehtabul; Prakash, Nishith - 2010
We investigate the public-private wage differential in India using nationally representative micro data. While the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285441
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Can a fifty percent increase in public sector wages improve the position of public sector employees in the long run? An assessment of the public-private income gap in Hungary
Hámori, Szilvia; Lovász, Anna - 2011
We provide a detailed descriptive analysis of the long-term effects of the 50 percent public sector wage increase initiated by the government in 2002 in order to improve the relative situation of public sector workers. The aim of this policy was to attract high quality workers to the public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494712
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Public-Private Earnings Differentials during Economic Transition in Hungary
Lauésev, Jelena - 2012
The paper explores the effect of economic transition on public-private sector pay differential across the pay distribution in Hungary from 1992 until 2003. Over the time period covered by the analysis the public sector had witnessed large-scale privatisations and restructuring through a number...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494720
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Pay for politicians and candidate selection: an empirical analysis
Kotakorpi, Kaisa Ilona; Poutvaara, Panu - 2009
In this paper, we estimate the effect of pay for politicians on who wants to be a politician. We take advantage of a considerable 35 percent salary increase of Finnish MPs in the year 2000, intended to make the pay for parliamentarians more competitive. A difference-indifferences analysis, using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274480
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Learning from Praise: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Teachers
Cotofan, Maria - 2019
Non-monetary incentives such as praise are common-place, but their effects on workers performing cognitively-complex tasks remain largely unknown. I expand the teacher incentive literature through a field experiment measuring how repeated public praise for the best teachers impacts teacher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012233956
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A közszféra bérszintje és a magánszektorból átlépők szelekciója 1997-2008-ban
Köllő, János - 2013
The paper looks at the effect of exceptionally large fluctuations in the level of public sector pay on the number and quality of workers moving from the private to the public sector in Hungary. Special emphasis is put on the unique pay rises taking place before and after the 2002 elections. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494741
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Personalbedarfe im öffentlichen Dienst des Freistaates Sachsen bis 2030 und Konkurrenzsituation zur Privatwirtschaft
Bauer, David; Ragnitz, Joachim; Sonnenburg, Julia; … - 2018
der öffentliche Dienst durch seine Nachbesetzungsbemühungen der Privatwirtschaft möglicherweise dringend benötigte … Fachkräfte entzieht. Tatsächlich stehen den altersbedingten Abgängen aus öffentlichem Dienst und Privatwirtschaft in etwa gleich … bleiben. Zudem entwickeln sich nicht nur im öffentlichen Dienst, sondern auch in der Privatwirtschaft erhebliche …
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