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Trust the Police? Self-Selection of Motivated Agents into the German Police Force

Friebel, Guido - 2016

We conduct experimental games with police applicants in Germany to investigate whether intrinsically motivated agents … intrinsic motivation in the police context. We find that police applicants are more trustworthy than non-applicants, i.e., they … police force, documenting an important mechanism by which the match between jobs and agents in public service can be improved …

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Reference Dependent Preferences and the Impact of Wage Increases on Job Satisfaction : Theory and Evidence

Grund, Christian - 2005

The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction is explored theoretically and empirically. To do this, we apply a utility function that rises with the absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. It is shown that when employees can influence their wages by exerting effort, myopic utility...

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Behavioral Effects of Probation Periods : An Analysis of Worker Absenteeism

Riphahn, Regina T.; Thalmaier, Anja - 2021

The theoretical probation literature shows that individuals have incentives to mimic "good workers" during periods of employment probation. This study empirically tests at the example of absence behavior, whether such behavioral responses to the incentives of probation periods exist. We find...

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Intrinsic Motivations of Public Sector Employees : Evidence for Germany

Dur, Robert A. J. - 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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Organization and Information in the Fight Against Crime : An Evaluation of the Integration of Police Forces in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2010

property crimes and 13% in personal crimes. There is also evidence that the IGESP is associated with improved police response …

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Strengthening State Capabilities : The Role of Financial Incentives in the Call to Public Service

Dal Bo, Ernesto - 2012

applicants' intellectual ability, personality, and motivation. This allows the first experimental estimates of (i) the role of … motivation; higher wage offers also increased acceptance rates, implying a labor supply elasticity of around 2 and some degree of …

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Do Temporary Contracts Affect TFP? Evidence from Spanish Manufacturing Firms

Dolado, Juan J.; Stucchi, Rodolfo - 2021

This paper evaluates the impact of the widespread use of fixed-term contracts in Spain on firms' TFP, via its effect on workers' effort. We propose a simple analytical framework showing that, under plausible conditions, workers' effort depends positively on their perception (for given level of...

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Working for a Good Cause

Dur, Robert A. J. - 2012

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 importance of mission preferences, and predict that altruistic people sort into the public sector when they...

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Who Benefits from Benefits? Empirical Research on Tangible Incentives

Hammermann, Andrea - 2012

Although a broad field of literature on incentive theory exists, employer-provided tangible goods (hereafter called benefits) have so far been neglected by economic research. A remarkable exception is an empirical study by Oyer (2008). In our study, we test some of his findings by drawing on a...

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Employee Recognition and Performance : A Field Experiment

Bradler, Christiane - 2014

This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of unannounced, public recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 employees to work on a three-hour data-entry task. In a random sample of work groups, workers...

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