The paper relies on data from four all-Russian representative surveys conducted within 1991-2004 period. It shows that most of the work values have undergone significant changes suggesting for enough flexibility in mass labour culture in Russia and therefore contrasting with the widely held view...

Civil servants have a bad reputation of being lazy. However, citizens' personal experiences with civil servants appear to be significantly better. We develop a model of an economy in which workers differ in laziness and in public service motivation, and characterise optimal incentive contracts...