Does the Strength of Incentives Matter for Elected Officials? A Look at Tax Collectors
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Keywords
Tax Collectors; Politician Salary; Productivity; Pay for Performance;JEL classification:
- H70 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - General
- J45 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Public Sector Labor Markets
- J33 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Compensation Packages; Payment Methods
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- M52 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HRM-2017-03-26 (Human Capital & Human Resource Management)
- NEP-IUE-2017-03-26 (Informal & Underground Economics)
- NEP-LMA-2017-03-26 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, & Wages)
- NEP-PBE-2017-03-26 (Public Economics)
- NEP-POL-2017-03-26 (Positive Political Economics)
- NEP-URE-2017-03-26 (Urban & Real Estate Economics)
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