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100 _aDelfgaauw, Josse
245 _aIncentives and workers' motivation in the public sector
260 _c2008
300 _ap.171-91.
362 _aJan
520 _aCivil servants have a reputation for being lazy. However, people's personal experiences with civil servants frequently run counter to the stereotype. We develop a model of an economy in which workers differ in laziness and in pub lic service motivation, and characterise optimal incentive contracts for public sector workers under different informational assumptions. When civil servants' effort is unverifiable, lazy workers find working in the public sector highly attractive and may crowd out dedicated workers. When effort is verifiable, a cost-minimising government optimally attracts dedicated workers as well as the economy's laziest workers by offering separating contracts, which are both distorted. - Reproduce
650 _aMotivation
650 _aPublic sector
700 _aDur, Robert
773 _aEconomic Journal
908 _aN
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