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From Public Monopsony to Competitive Market : More Efficiency But Higher Prices
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert - 2021
under the public monopsony. Political support for liberalisation may therefore be limited …-minimising public firm. Workers in the economy are heterogeneous in their motivation to work in the sector. In line with empirical … sector's output rise as competition between private firms for the best motivated workers leads to higher wage costs than …
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From public monopsony to competitive market : more efficiency but higher prices
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J. - 2003
the public monopsony. Political support for liberalisation may therefore be limited. …-minimising public firm. Workers in the economy are heterogeneous in their motivation to work in the sector. In line with empirical … sector s output rise as competition between private firms for the best motivated workers leads to higher wage cost than under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404420
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From public monopsony to competitive market : more efficiency but higher prices
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J. - In: Oxford economic papers 61 (2009) 3, pp. 586-602
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From public monopsony to competitive market : more efficiency but higher prices
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J. - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001718712
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From public monopsony to competitive market : more efficiency but higher prices
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J. - 2003
the public monopsony. Political support for liberalisation may therefore be limited. …-minimising public firm. Workers in the economy are heterogeneous in their motivation to work in the sector. In line with empirical … sector's output rise as competition between private firms for the best motivated workers leads to higher wage cost than under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001874241
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From Public Monopsony to Competitive Market : More Efficiency but Higher Prices
Delfgaauw, Josse - 2010
competition between private firms for the best motivated workers leads to higher wage cost than under the public monopsony …-minimizing public firm. Workers in the economy are heterogeneous in their intrinsic motivation to work in the sector. In line with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152350
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Promotion Tournament
Chen, Kong-Pin - 2001
This paper studies the "negative" activities of members in organizations. In competing for promotion, the members not only can work to enhance their own performances, but can also work to "sabotage" their opponents in order to decrease their performances. They find it worthwhile to engage in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014127222
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Sabotages in Promotion Tournaments
Chen, Kong-Pin - 2003
The paper studies the nature, determinants, and impacts of "negative" activities in organizations. In competing for promotion, the members in organizations can work not only to enhance their own performances, but also to "sabotage" their opponents' performances. They find it worthwhile to engage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014105907
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Sabotages in Promotion Tournaments
Chen, Kong-Pin - 2003
The paper studies the nature, determinants, and impacts of "negative" activities in organizations. In competing for promotion, the members in organizations can work not only to enhance their own performances, but also to "sabotage" their opponents' performances. They find it worthwhile to engage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014093587
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Do tournaments with superstars encourage or discourage competition?
Babington, Michael; Goerg, Sebastian J.; Kitchens, Carl T. - 2017
To test and replicate the superstar effect reported by Brown (2011) we empirically study contests where a single entrant has an endogenously higher probability of winning. Unlike the previous literature, we test for the presence of the superstar effect in several different contexts. Ultimately,...
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