Civil servants have a reputation for being lazy. However, people's personal experiences with civil servants frequently run counter to this stereotype. We develop a model of an economy in which workers differ in laziness and in public service motivation, and characterise optimal incentive...

Although extrinsic and intrinsic motivation likely jointly explain the effort of many agents engaged in public service delivery, canonical models of incentives in firms focus on the former. In the context of a rural health worker program in India, I develop and test a novel mobile phone app...

We study, theoretically and empirically, the effects of incentives on the self-selection and coordination of motivated agents to produce a social good. Agents join teams where they allocate effort to either generate individual monetary rewards (selfish effort) or contribute to the production of...

Das schweizerische Personalrecht ist von einer weit reichenden Novellierung der Rechtsgrundlagengekennzeichnet. Die revidierte Bundesverfassung (BV)1 hat neben der Tarifautonomie derSozialpartner2 auch für den öffentlichen Dienst festgehalten, dass die Mittel des Arbeitskampfes− Streik und...