research, and studies on street-level bureaucracy thus aim to understand the actions of frontline workers. Largely missing in … this literature, however, is research on how tenure affects behavior. To fill in this gap, we analyze how caseworkers with … varying degrees of tenure respond to steering signals. We study the nationwide introduction of an assessment support tool to …

when dynamic incentives are important. This finding is robust to the introduction of tenure, which has an additional … negative ex post impact on production. Our results indicate therefore that both promotions and tenure have an effect on the … provision of incentives. Finally, we detect evidence of a sorting process, as the more productive individuals are allocated to …

This paper provides estimates of the average returns to labour market experience and .rm-speci.c tenure for a sample of … young Italian male workers. Using instrumental variables, I take into account endogeneity and selection problems generated … by job matching and individual fixed effects. Results indicate that OLS estimates for experience and tenure are downward …

others. We develop a model of such a street-level bureaucracy and study the implications of its personnel policy on the self … not sanction, and the most altruistic types sort into bureaucracy. Pay-for-performance induces some bureaucrats to … sanction, but necessitates an increase in expected wage compensation, which can result in sorting from both the top and bottom …