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Dur, Robert A. J.; Schmittdiel, Heiner - In: De economist : Netherlands economic review ; quarterly … 167 (2019) 4, pp. 387-406
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Exploitation Aversion : When Financial Incentives Fail to Motivate Agents
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2013
rewards to performance increases effort, but that they can also backfire, reducing effort. Intrinsic motivation, the internal …. If the incentives crowd-out intrinsic motivation, and the effect is large enough, the net motivational effect on effort …, is one facet of intrinsic motivation, triggered by the combination of high-powered incentives and egoistic principal …
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Non-competitive wage-setting as a cause of unfriendly and inefficient leadership
Dur, Robert A. J.; Kvaløy, Ola; Schöttner, Anja - 2019 - This draft: September 2019
This paper develops a simple economic model to examine how leadership styles in organizations depend on the prevailing wage-setting conditions for workers. In particular, we examine a leader who can - in addition to the use of monetary incentives - motivate a worker by adopting leadership styles...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110227
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Non-competitive wage-setting as a cause of unfriendly and inefficient leadership
Dur, Robert A. J.; Kvaløy, Ola; Schöttner, Anja - 2018 - This draft: November 2018
This paper develops a simple economic model to examine how leadership styles in organizations depend on the prevailing wage-setting conditions for workers. In particular, we examine a leader who can - in addition to the use of monetary incentives - motivate a worker by adopting leadership styles...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011936032
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Serving the public interest in several ways : theory and empirics
Dur, Robert A. J.; Lent, Max van - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 51 (2018), pp. 13-24
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Politicians' motivation, political culture, and electoral competition
Beniers, Klaas J.; Dur, Robert A. J. - 2005
We study electoral competition among politicians who are heterogeneous both in competence and in how much they care about (what they perceive as) the public interest relative to the private rents from being in office. We show that politicians may have stronger incentives to behave...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335188
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Politicians' motivation, political culture, and electoral competition
Beniers, Klaas J.; Dur, Robert A. J. - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002128051
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Politicians ́motivation, political structure, and electoral competition
Beniers, Klaas J.; Dur, Robert A. J. - In: International tax and public finance 14 (2007) 1, pp. 29-54
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003407490
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011738885
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011672030