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Intrinsic motivations and the non-profit health sector: evidence from Ethiopia
Serra, Danila; Serneels, Pieter; Barr, Abigail - 2010
Economists have traditionally assumed that individual behavior is motivated exclusively by extrinsic incentives. Social psychologists, in contrast, stress that intrinsic motivations are also important. In recent work, economic theorists have started to build psychological factors, like intrinsic...
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Who wants to work in a rural health post? The role of intrinsic motivation, rural background and faith-based institutions in Rwanda and Ethiopia
Serneels, Pieter; Montalvo, Jose G.; Pettersson, Gunilla; … - 2010
Most developing countries face shortages of health workers in rural areas. This has profound consequences for health service delivery, and ultimately for health outcomes. To design policies that rectify these geographic imbalances it is vital to understand what factors determine health workers'...
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The sociology of groups and the economics of incentives: theory and evidence on compensation systems
Encinosa, William E.; Gaynor, Martin; Rebitzer, James B. - 2005
When working together, people engage in non-contractual and informal interactions that constitute the sociology of the group. We use behavioral models and a unique survey of medical groups to analyze how group sociology influences physician incentive pay and behavior. We conclude that informal...
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Occupational mismatch and moonlighting among Spanish physicians: do couples matter?
Dolado, Juan José; Felgueroso, Florentino - 2008
physicians have lower participation rates than male physicians plus they are subject to higher occupational mismatch, and (ii …) moonlighting is more frequent among male physicians. In this paper we investigate whether such differences are related to the … university graduates, Spanish physicians are the ones most often coupled to partners with the same educational level and/or same …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268616
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On the sorting of physicians across medical occupations
Courty, Pascal; Marschke, Gerald - 2008
possibility of differential productivity across occupations. The model combines moral hazard and matching of physicians and … occupations with pre-matching investments. In equilibrium assortative matching takes place; more able physicians join occupations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269167
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Firm-Specific Human Capital: A Skill-Weights Approach
Lazear, Edward P. - 2003
One problem with the theory of firm-specific human capital is that it is difficult to generate convincing examples of investment that could generate the sometimes observed large and continuing effects on earnings. Another approach, called the ?skill-weights? view, allows all skills to be general...
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Mincer's Overtaking Point and the Lifecycle Earnings Distribution
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2003
In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand earnings distribution. In the years since Mincer?s seminal work, he as well as his students and colleagues extended the original human capital model, reaching important conclusions about a whole array of observations pertaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261587
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Fiscal Policy and Educational Attainment in the United States : A Generational Accounting Perspective
Chojnicki, Xavier; Docquier, Frédéric - 2004
In this paper, we investigate the consequences of the rise in educational attainment on the US generational accounts. We build on the 1995 accounts of Gokhale et al. (1999) and disaggregate them per schooling level. We show that low skill newborns are characterized by a negative generational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261806
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Occupational Mobility and Wage Inequality
Kambourov, Gueorgui; Manovskii, Iourii - 2004
In this study we argue that wage inequality and occupational mobility are intimately related. We are motivated by our empirical findings that human capital is occupation-specific and that the fraction of workers switching occupations in the United States was as high as 16% a year in the early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261938
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Jewish Occupational Selection : Education, Restrictions, or Minorities?
Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi - 2004
This paper documents the major features of Jewish economic history in the first millennium to explain the distinctive occupational selection of the Jewish people into urban, skilled occupations. We show that many Jews entered urban occupations in the eighth-ninth centuries in the Muslim Empire...
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