Are bureaucrats really paid like bureaucrats?

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dc.contributor.authorBoyle, G.
dc.contributor.authorRaddemaker, S.
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-29T02:37:40Z
dc.date.available2016-07-29T02:37:40Z
dc.date.issued2016en
dc.description.abstractIn an influential paper, Hall and Liebman (QJE, 1998) ask if senior corporate executives are really paid like bureaucrats, and conclude that they are not. In this paper, we ask if senior public service bureaucrats are really paid like bureaucrats, and conclude that they too are not. However, there is an important difference: whereas the Hall and Liebman executives face high-powered performance incentives, the bureaucrats in our sample are rewarded for expanding the size of the organisations they manage. While we cannot definitively rule out the possibility that this indicates efficient compensation of bureaucrats who provide more and better services, or face greater job complexity, the balance of our evidence is more consistent with the idea that the senior public servants in our sample are, on average, rewarded for ‘empire-building’, consistent with the public choice view of bureaucracy.en
dc.identifier.citationBoyle, G., Raddemaker, S. (2016) Are bureaucrats really paid like bureaucrats?. Corporate Ownership and Control, 13(2), pp. 478-486.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/12536
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Canterbury. Department of Economics and Financeen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.virtusinterpress.org/ARE-BUREAUCRATS-REALLY-PAID-LIKE.htmlen
dc.rightsPermission granted by publisher to upload article into UC Repository 28/07/16en
dc.rights.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651
dc.subjectBureaucratsen
dc.subjectRemunerationen
dc.subjectMotivationen
dc.subjectIncentivesen
dc.subjectEmpire Buildingen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::35 - Commerce, management, tourism and services::3507 - Strategy, management and organisational behaviour::350710 - Organisational behaviouren
dc.subject.anzsrcField of Research::14 - Economics::1402 - Applied Economics::140202 - Economic Development and Growthen
dc.subject.anzsrcField of Research::17 - Psychology and Cognitive Sciences::1701 - Psychology::170107 - Industrial and Organisational Psychologyen
dc.titleAre bureaucrats really paid like bureaucrats?en
dc.typeJournal Article
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