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Revisiting the old debate : citizens' perceptions of meritocracy in public and private organizations

Suzuki, Kohei; Hur, Hyunkang - In: Public management review 24 (2022) 8, pp. 1226-1250

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Managerial talent, motivation, and self-selection into public management

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J. - 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...

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Change leadership at local self-government in the context of COVID-19 : the case study of Lithuanian municipal administration

Račaitė-Samušienė, Vineta; Šaparnienė, Diana; … - In: Scientific papers of the University of Pardubice 29 (2021) 3, pp. 1-11

in Lithuanian municipal administration in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and on the basis of research results to … public administration institutions focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic. The scientific methods such as document analysis and … municipal administration as the field of research. The research results revealed that during the period of changes assumed by …

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Reforming an institutional culture of corruption : a model of motivated agents and collective reputation

Valasek, Justin Mattias - 2015

Recent research has highlighted social image and identity concerns as factors that influence economic decisions. Given that an individual’s choice of employment may be important for their social image, we consider a model of worker sorting into the mission-oriented or private sector with...

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Dynamic reform of public institutions : a model of motivated agents and collective reputation

Valasek, Justin - 2016 - Revised October 2016

State capacity is optimized when public institutions are staffed by individuals with public-service motivation. However, when motivated agents value the collective reputation of their place of employment, steady-state equilibria with both high and low aggregate motivation (reputation) in the...

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Dynamic reform of public institutions : a model of motivated agents and collective reputation

Valasek, Justin - In: Journal of public economics 168 (2018), pp. 94-108

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Drivers of public sector growth in Imperial Austria 1870-1913

Köppl-Turyna, Monika - 2017

We test several hypotheses concerning the growth of public expenditure by the Austrian monarchy between 1870 and 1913 in relation to Wagner's law, as well as the impact of increasing public indebtedness and the expanding role of the Imperial Council towards the end of the analyzed period, using...

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The Happiness Gains From Sorting and Matching inthe Labor Market

Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois; Winkelmann, Rainer … - Universität <Zürich> / Rechts-, Staats- und …; … - 2007

Sorting of people on the labor market not only assures the most productive use of valuableskills but also generates individual utility gains if people experience an optimal match betweenjob characteristics and their preferences. Based on individual data on subjective well-being it ispossible to...

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Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and the Private Sector

Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in particular job security, in workers´ well-being by exploiting sector-specific institutional differences...

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The Impact of the Public Sector Pay Review Bodies in the UK

Dolton, Peter; Makepeace, Gerry - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper examines the impact of the Pay Review Bodies (PRBs) on the public sector pay of their remit groups. We compare the real weekly earnings of groups of workers in occupations covered by PRBs, in the remainder of the public sector and in the private sector using LFS data from 1993 to 2006...

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