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Social Relations and Relational Incentives
Dur, Robert; Tichem, Jan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
this end we develop a simple dynamic principal-agent model where both players may have feelings of altruism or spite toward …
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Remittances and their Effect on Emigration Intentions in Egypt, Morocco and Turkey
Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Groenewold, George; Fokkema, Tineke - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255585
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Incentives and the Sorting of Altruistic Agents into Street-Level Bureaucracies
Buurman, Margaretha; Dur, Robert - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
-selection and allocation decisions of agents who differ in altruism towards clients. When bureaucrats are paid flat wages, they do … of the altruism distribution. We also show how client composition affects sorting and why street-level bureaucrats often …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255604
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Working for a Good Cause
Dur, Robert; Zoutenbier, Robin - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
This discussion paper has led to a publication in the <I>Public Administration Review</I>, 2014, 74(2), 144-155.<P> A rich literature in public administration has shown that public sector employees have stronger altruistic motivations than private sector employees. Recent economic theories stress the...</p></i>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255626
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Compensatory Inter Vivos Gifts
Hochguertel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
This discussion paper led to a publication in <A href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jae.1071/full"><I>Journal of Applied Econometrics</I></A>, 24(6), 993-1023.Parents’ transfer motives are important for understanding, e.g., macroeconomics, income (re)distribution, savings, and public finance. Using data from six biennial waves of the Health and Retirement...</i></a>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255669
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Intrinsic Motivations of Public Sector Employees: Evidence for Germany
Dur, Robert; Zoutenbier, Robin - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
We examine differences in altruism and laziness between public sector employees and private sector employees. Our … theoretical model predicts that the likelihood of public sector employment increases with a worker's altruism, and increases or … decreases with a worker's laziness depending on his altruism. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256134
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Leniency Bias in Long-Term Workplace Relationships
Tichem, Jan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
altruism sometimes provides a net incentive to report performance truthfully, rather than to bias evaluations upward. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256342
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Dedicated Doctors: Public and Private Provision of Health Care with Altruistic Physicians
Delfgaauw, Josse - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
altruism. We show that allowing for private provision of health care, parallel to (free) treatment in a National Health Service …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256427
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Social Interaction, Co-Worker Altruism, and Incentives
Dur, Robert; Sol, Joeri - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
colleagues, which in turn creates co-worker altruism. We study how financial incentives for productive activities can improve or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257180
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The Sustainability of the Pay-as-you-go System with Falling Birth Rates
Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Cardoso, Pedro - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
altruism. A fall in the population growth rate, even to negative values, will imply a reduction of the interest rate and an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257498