Working paper
Transparency, recruitment and retention in the public sector
- Abstract:
-
This paper argues that government should pay greater heed to recruitment and retention when designing performance measurement systems for bureaucracies. In the face of pervasive rigidities in public sector pay, internal performance measurement rewards quitters and scars stayers and therefore makes it difficult to recruit and retain. Full and immediate publication of performance minimizes the cost of initial recruitment but entails retaining and paying rents to poor performers. This is optimal...
Expand abstract
- Publication status:
- Published
Actions
Authors
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- University of Oxford Publisher's website
- Series:
- Department of Economics Discussion Paper Series
- Publication date:
- 2004-12-01
- Paper number:
- 219
Item Description
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
-
1144222
- Local pid:
- pubs:1144222
- Deposit date:
- 2020-12-15
Terms of use
- Copyright date:
- 2004
- Rights statement:
- Copyright 2004 The Author(s)
If you are the owner of this record, you can report an update to it here: Report update to this record