This paper reviews recent theoretical and empirical work on public employment management and presents novel stylized facts on public sector jobs. In the first part, we examine the evolution of managerial practices in the public sector and discuss the contractual arrangement of public sector...

This paper reviews recent theoretical and empirical work on public employment management and presents novel stylized facts on public sector jobs. In the first part, we examine the evolution of managerial practices in the public sector and discuss the contractual arrangement of public sector...

This model explains the self-selection of workers between workplaces which differ in the return to workers' skill and the level of job security. Incomplete information in the market enables the reallocation-process in which each worker chooses her best job. The model also clarifies the...

This paper investigates why workers choose the public versus the private sector to understand which aspects of public sector labour contracts should be improved to attract more high-skilled individuals. Using data from the 2014 wave of the Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW), the paper...

Improving schools depends on attracting high-caliber teachers and increasing retention, both made possible by appealing to teacher preferences. I deploy a discrete-choice experiment in a setting where teachers have reason to reveal their preferences. There are three main findings: (1) I...

Ein Vergleich der Arbeitsbedingungen im öffentlichen und privaten Sektor zeigt, dass beim Staat vor allem die Arbeitszeitregelungen beschäftigtenfreundlicher sind und der Schutz der Arbeitskräfte durch Tarifverträge und betriebliche Mitbestimmung umfassender ausfällt. Doch bei der...

Improving schools depends on attracting high-caliber teachers and increasing retention, both made possible by appealing to teacher preferences. I deploy a discrete-choice experiment in a setting where teachers have reason to reveal their preferences. There are three main findings: (1) I...

Improving schools depends on attracting talented teachers and fostering retention, both made possible by appealing to worker preferences. I use a discrete-choice experiment to estimate preferences for a comprehensive set of workplace attributes including compensation structure, working...

We examine how changes in the salience of workplace risk affect police behavior and public safety. Specifically, we investigate cases of police officer deaths while on duty. Officers respond to a peer death by decreasing arrest activity for one to two months, consistent with heightened fear....