TY - JOUR
T1 - Perverse incentives? Labor market regulation and performance in the public sector
AU - Chong, Alberto
AU - Cozzubo, Angelo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 by the Southern Economic Association
PY - 2019/7
Y1 - 2019/7
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1002/soej.12367
DO - 10.1002/soej.12367
M3 - Article in a journal
SN - 0038-4038
VL - 86
SP - 271
EP - 285
JO - Southern Economic Journal
JF - Southern Economic Journal
IS - 1
ER -
