The use of fixed-term contracts and the (adverse) selection of public sector workers
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Keywords
Public service delivery; incentives; selection; public sector personnel; occupational choices;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- M54 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Labor Management
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HRM-2015-12-08 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-LMA-2015-12-08 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
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