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Managerial talent, motivation, and self-selection into public management

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J. - 2010

The quality of public management is a recurrent concern in many countries. Calls to attract the economy’s best and brightest managers to the public sector abound. This paper studies self-selection into managerial positions in the public and private sector, using a model of a perfectly...

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Intrinsic motivations of public sector employees : evidence for Germany

Dur, Robert A. J.; Zoutenbier, Robin - 2014

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...

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Serving the public interest in several ways : theory and empirics

Dur, Robert A. J.; Lent, Max van - 2017

We develop a model where people differ in their altruistic preferences and can serve the public interest in two ways: by making donations to charity and by taking a public service job and exerting effort on the job. Our theory predicts that people who are more altruistic are more likely to take...

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Invisible geniuses : could the knowledge frontier advance faster?

Agarwal, Ruchir; Gaulé, Patrick - 2018

The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress. Using novel data … talent is a central ingredient for the production of knowledge. Second, such talented individuals born in low- or middle …-income countries are systematically less likely to become knowledge producers. Our findings suggest that policies to encourage …

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Voter reaction to government incompetence and corruption related to the 1999 earthquakes in Turkey

Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysıt - 2015

Two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999 exposed rampant corruption involving construction and zoning code violations. The government's relief efforts were tainted by corruption as well, and exhibited a great deal of incompetence. How voters responded to these in the next...

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