develops a simple economic model to examine how leadership styles depend on the prevailing labor-market conditions for workers … social preferences. In a single-period setting, only moderately altruistic leaders use praise as a motivation tool, whereas …

leaders never use the latter type of leadership when the worker is hired in a competitive labor market. In contrast, in labor …) leaders sometimes do use the 'unfriendly' style, and the more so the worse the worker’s labor market prospects are. We show …

leaders never use the latter type of leadership when the worker is hired in a competitive labor market. In contrast, in labor …) leaders sometimes do use the "unfriendly" style, and the more so the worse the worker's labor market prospects are. We show …

performers). We show that leaders never use the latter type of leadership when the worker is hired in a competitive labor market …. In contrast, in labor markets with non-competitive wage-setting (e.g., in the presence of trade union bargaining or … minimum wage legislation) leaders sometimes do use the 'unfriendly' style, and the more so the worse the worker's labor market …

develops a simple economic model to examine how leadership styles depend on the prevailing labor-market conditions for workers … social preferences. In a single-period setting, only moderately altruistic leaders use praise as a motivation tool, whereas …

motivation, and characterise optimal incentive contracts for public sector workers under different informational assumptions …

-minimizing public firm. Workers in the economy are heterogeneous in their intrinsic motivation to work in the sector. In line with …