We study the private gains to bureaucrats from their political alignment with elected politicians. Whereas existing studies generally rely on proxies for politician-bureaucrat political alignment, a rare feature of our data allows measuring it directly since 27% of bureaucrats ran for political...

A booming literature has argued that mission-based motives are a central feature of mission-oriented labor markets. This paper shifts the focus to task-based motivation and finds that it yields significantly more effort than mission-based motivation. Moreover, in the presence of significant task...

Das vorliegende Gutachten wurde im Auftrag der Arbeitsgemeinschaft kommunale und kirchliche Altersversorgung (AKA) e. V. erstellt. Es untersucht ausführlich unter ökonomischen und versicherungsmathematischen Gesichtspunkten die Finanzierung der Altersversorgung im öffentlichen Dienst. Die...

The common sense remarks that Brazilian public service has a chronic oversize, a characteristic of a patronage and entrenched patrimonialism and partisanship. This paper shows evidences that refute this common sense. In addition, the paper offers recommendations and proposals to overcome this...

We provide evidence that promotion incentives influence the effort of public employees by studying China's system of promotions for teachers. Predictions from a tournament model of promotion are tested using retrospective panel data on primary and middle school teachers. Consistent with theory,...

The common sense remarks that Brazilian public service has a chronic oversize, a characteristic of a patronage and entrenched patrimonialism and partisanship. This paper shows evidences that refute this common sense. In addition, the paper offers recommendations and proposals to overcome this...

We uncover the short- and long-run structural determinants of the existing cross-country heterogeneity in public-private pay differentials for a broad set of OECD countries. We explore micro data (EU-SILC, 2004–2012) and macro data (1970–2014). Three results stand out. First, when looking at...

Purpose: The object of this research is to investigate work motivating factors in the public sector in Greece, as well as to study demographic attributes, placing emphasis on age and gender as determinants of employee motives. Design/methodology/approach: To answer our research questions, a...

Die Gewerkschaft "Öffentliche Dienste, Transport und Verkehr" (ÖTV) und ihr Vorsitzender Heinz Kluncker galten in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren als überaus mächtig: Mit dem legendären zweistelligen Lohnabschluss von 1974 brachten sie sogar Bundeskanzler Willy Brandt in Bedrängnis. Karl...

We propose an assignment model in which positions along a hierarchy are attributed to individuals depending on their characteristics. Our theoretical framework can be used to study differences in assignment and outcomes across groups and we show how it can motivate decomposition and...

Profile: Pearl Bernstein: A Woman in New York Politics -- Precedents -- Part 1: At the Margins -- Negotiating Partisanship -- Sustaining Feminist Progressivism -- Part 2: Moving toward the Center -- Scandal in the Courts -- Fallout -- The Women of the Administration -- The Election of 1937 and...

History of public pensions -- Public pension marketplace -- Defined benefit model -- Actuarial valuation concepts -- Beyond defined benefit -- Investment policy -- Asset allocation policy -- The public pension portfolio -- Public pension performance -- Public pension contributions -- Governance...

Die Landesregierungen haben in den letzten 25 Jahren angesichts Sparzwang und knapper öffentlicher Finanzen massive Personalreduzierungen und Organisationsveränderungen vorgenommen, welche die Handlungsfähigkeit des öffentlichen Dienstes mehr und mehr infrage stellen. Die Beschäftigtenzahl...

Following years of job cuts in the civil service recent statistical data point to a turnaround in parallel with the improved budgetary position. However, there is still a substantial need to raise employment over the coming years. According to this study there is currently a staff deficit of at...