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Trust the police? : self-selection of motivated agents into the German police force
Friebel, Guido; Kosfeld, Michael; Thielmann, Gerd - 2016
We conduct experimental games with police applicants in Germany to investigate whether intrinsically motivated agents … intrinsic motivation in the police context. We find that police applicants are more trustworthy than non-applicants, i.e., they … police force, documenting an important mechanism by which the match between jobs and agents in public service can be improved. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573312
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Trust the Police? Self-Selection of Motivated Agents into the German Police Force
Friebel, Guido - 2016
We conduct experimental games with police applicants in Germany to investigate whether intrinsically motivated agents … intrinsic motivation in the police context. We find that police applicants are more trustworthy than non-applicants, i.e., they … police force, documenting an important mechanism by which the match between jobs and agents in public service can be improved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977332
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Trust the police? : self-selection of motivated agents into the German police force
Friebel, Guido; Kosfeld, Michael; Thielmann, Gerd - 2016
We conduct experimental games with police applicants in Germany to investigate whether intrinsically motivated agents … intrinsic motivation in the police context. We find that police applicants are more trustworthy than non-applicants, i.e., they … police force, documenting an important mechanism by which the match between jobs and agents in public service can be improved. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594631
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Trust the police? : self-selection of motivated agents into the German police force
Friebel, Guido; Kosfeld, Michael; Thielmann, Gerd M. - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606809
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Trust the police? : self-selection of motivated agents into the German police force
Friebel, Guido; Kosfeld, Michael; Thielmann, Gerd - In: American economic journal : a journal of the American … 11 (2019) 4, pp. 59-78
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012139672
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Professional Motivations in the Public Sector : Evidence from Police Officers
Chalfin, Aaron; Gonçalves, Felipe M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
police arrests. Arrests made near the end of an officer's shift typically require overtime work, and officers respond by … reducing arrest frequency but increasing arrest quality. Days in which an officer works a second job after their police shift …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014447306
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Communication and trust in principal-team relationships : experimental evidence
Kleine, Marco; Kube, Sebastian - 2015
-assessments can be detrimental to workers' performance. In the controlled environment of a laboratory gift-exchange experiment, our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467800
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Voluntary versus enforced team effort
Keser, Claudia; Montmarquette, Claude - In: Games 2 (2011) 3, pp. 277-301
We present a model where each of two players chooses between remuneration based on either private or team effort. Although at least one of the players has the equilibrium strategy to choose private remuneration, we frequently observe both players to choose team remuneration in a series of...
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Are workers motivated by the greater good? : workers care about employers' social causes, but the public sector does not attract particularly motivated employees
Tonin, Mirco - 2015
Employees show more commitment to an employer that promotes the greater good, and they work harder too. Moreover, many people are willing to give up some of their compensation to contribute to a social cause. Being able to attract a motivated workforce would be particularly important for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430531
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Crowding out Intrinsic Motivation in the Public Sector
Georgellis, Yannis; Iossa, Elisabetta; Tabvuma, Vurain - 2012
Employing intrinsically motivated individuals has been proposed as a means of improving public sector performance. In this article, we investigate whether intrinsic motivation affects the sorting of employees between the private and the public sectors, paying particular attention to whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014195102