Perverse Incentives? Labor Market Regulation and Performance in the Public Sector

Autor:	Angelo Cozzubo, Alberto Chong
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	Economics and Econometrics Labour economics business.industry 05 social sciences Public sector Market regulation Test (assessment) Outcome variable Incentive Job performance 0502 economics and business Economics Endogeneity 050207 economics Proxy (statistics) business 050205 econometrics
Zdroj:	Southern Economic Journal.
ISSN:	2325-8012 0038-4038
DOI:	10.1002/soej.12367
Popis:	We test the link between labor market regulations and job performance in the public sector using a novel outcome variable, namely, the number of days it takes the postal service to return letters sent to nonexistent foreign addresses, a measure that we argue is an excellent proxy for job performance. We find a positive and statistically significant link between these two variables, regardless of the labor regulation measure employed, changes in specification, and even unlikely endogeneity considerations, which suggest that this finding may be causal.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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