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Rocco Macchiavello - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Public Sector motivation and development failures
Journal of Development Economics, 2008Co-Authors: Rocco MacchiavelloAbstract:This paper provides a theoretical analysis of the relationship between Public Sector motivation and development. In the model the Public Sector produces a Public good and workers are heterogeneous in terms of Public Sector motivation (PSM). Wages in the private Sector increase with the quality of the Public good. In this context, Public Sector wage premia (PSWP) have two opposite effects: low PSWP helps screen workers with PSM into the Public Sector, while high PSWP helps motivate workers to be honest. Raising PSWP may not improve the quality of governance and multiple equilibria might arise. The model highlights that the relative importance of workers selection and provision of ”on the job” incentives in the Public Sector varies in systematic ways with wages in the private Sector. We provide anecdotal and original empirical evidence consistent with the theoretical predictions and discuss some policy implications for Public Sector reforms in developing countries.
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Public Sector Motivation And Development Failures
2004Co-Authors: Rocco MacchiavelloAbstract:This paper provides a theoretical analysis of the relationship between Public Sector motivation and development. In the model the Public Sector produces a Public good and workers are heterogeneous in terms of Public Sector motivation (PSM). Wages in the private Sector are increasing in the quality of the Public good. In this context, Public Sector wage premia (PSWP) have two opposite effects: low PSWP help screen workers with PSM into the Public Sector, while high PSWP help motivate workers to be honest. Raising PSWP may not improve the quality of governance and multiple equilibria might arise. The model highlights that the relative importance of workers selection and provision of "on the job" incentives in the Public Sector varies in systematic ways with wages in the private Sector. I provide anecdotal and original empirical evidence consistent with the theoretical predictions and discuss some policy implications for Public Sector reforms in developing countries.
Pedro Gomes - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Optimal Public Sector Wages
The Economic Journal, 2014Co-Authors: Pedro GomesAbstract:I build a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with search and matching frictions to determine the optimal Public Sector wage policy. Public Sector wages are crucial in achieving efficient allocation of jobs. High wages induce too many unemployed to queue for Public Sector jobs, in turn raising unemployment. The optimal wage depends on the frictions in the two Sectors. Following technology shocks, Public Sector wages should be pro-cyclical and deviations from the optimal policy significantly increase the volatility of unemployment
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A reform of Public Sector wages
2014Co-Authors: Pedro GomesAbstract:I propose a reform of Public Sector wages consisting of: i) a review of pay of all Public Sector workers to align the distribution of Public Sector wages with the private Sector and ii) stipulating up a rule to determine the yearly growth rate of Public Sector wages. I set up a DSGE model with labour market frictions and heterogeneous workers to structure the discussion of the reform. I show that, in a sample of 29 developed countries for the pre-crisis period of 19952006, countries that deviated more from the rule had a larger increase in the unemployment rate and higher volatility of unemployment relative to GDP.
Tim Kastelle - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Innovation in the Public Sector
Australian Journal of Public Administration, 2015Co-Authors: Martin Stewart-weeks, Tim KastelleAbstract:Why does the Public Sector innovate, how should the Public Sector innovate, and, even more basically, should the Public Sector innovate? These are some of the questions that these contributions explore and to which they provide some salutary answers. Martin Stewart-Weeks, an independent consultant working at the intersection of government, innovation, and technology, draws some lessons from his direct experience and advisory work about how the Public Sector catches the innovation ‘bug’ and turns it into in- spired action. From infection to inspiration to implementation, the Public Sector needs to lower its defences and put itself ‘in harm's way’ to engage with innovators and new ideas. Tim Kastelle, one of Australia's leading innovation scholars and practitioners, sets out some practical ways that the Public Sector can extend and entrench its innovation practice. These include managing innovation as a process, shifting the risk equation, and experimenting.
Melinda Sandler Morrill - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Retiree Health Plans in the Public Sector - Retiree Health Plans in the Public Sector
2010Co-Authors: Robert L. Clark, Melinda Sandler MorrillAbstract:While retiree health plans are a dying benefit in the private Sector, all US states and many local governments extend health insurance coverage to their retired employees. This book is the first to thoroughly examine Public Sector health insurance plans. Retiree Health Plans in the Public Sector provides a detailed description of the current plans offered and compares how they vary across states.
Hans Hasselbladh - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Forms of Intervention in Public Sector Organizations: Generic Traits in Public Sector Reforms
Organization Studies, 2013Co-Authors: Eva Bejerot, Hans HasselbladhAbstract:The present paper argues that recent research on Public Sector reforms offers few contributions to the body of knowledge on this topic because it adds little to the conclusions drawn during the first generation of research in this area. Although these later studies have often been context-specific and have explored the details of the process of change in some depth, it is rather difficult to compare their results or to make reasoned judgements of the comprehensiveness and centrality of the analysed change. Although most Public Sector reforms that affect hospitals, schools or social services are initiated and designed by national governments, individual case studies of local administrations often fail to capture the generic traits of nationwide reforms. However, Public Sector change cannot be approached as if it comprises collections of nominally independent local events. The present paper argues for two new approaches to the study of Public Sector change: (i) the systematic categorization of the different forms of governmental intervention under study and (ii) analysis of the ways in which these forms of intervention are linked and interact. Based on extensive empirical research, this paper suggests a generic classification of these forms of intervention that can be used in empirical research on comprehensive Public Sector change. Consequently, five interventions in Public Sector organizations are suggested, namely political intervention, intervention by laws and regulations, intervention by audit and inspection, intervention by management and intervention by rationalizing professional practice. The model is particularly well suited to the longitudinal analysis of complex Public Sector reforms. This approach provides a conceptual tool to distinguish between interventions based on different forms of knowledge and to investigate how they are linked to each other vertically and horizontally. We demonstrate the usefulness of the model by analysing two empirical examples of reforms in which a variety of interventions were imposed at the local level, through legislation as well as a spectrum of voluntary measures proposed by government agencies, by national associations for local and regional councils and by other national or regional actors.
