eprintid: 2573
rev_number: 15
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type: working_paper
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creators_name: Albano, G.L.
creators_name: Leaver, C.
creators_id: GLALB95
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title: Transparency, recruitment and retention in the public sector
ispublished: pub
subjects: 12050
subjects: 12000
divisions: F24
keywords: JEL classification: D82, D73, H1, J31, J44, J45. Recruitment and retention, wage compression, optimal disclosure policies
note: Please also see http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/14567 for a related item
abstract: This paper evaluates the impact of releasing performance measures on public sector recruitment
and retention. We analyse the role played by the informativeness of disclosure by
comparing a policy of transparency with confidentiality, and the role played by the timing of
disclosure via a comparison with delayed (e.g. end of project) reporting. We show that relative
wage compression in the public sector produces a recruitment-retention trade-off. Transparency
minimises the cost of recruitment, delayed reporting minimises the cost of short-term retention,
while confidentiality minimises the cost of long-term retention. The optimal disclosure policy
varies with the type of public organisation - that is, with the relative value of public sector
projects and the complexity of production - warning against the current ’one size fits all’ policy
date: 2004-04
date_type: published
publisher: Department of Economics, University College London
official_url: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/silva/economics/research/papers/working-papers-2004
vfaculties: VSHS
oa_status: green
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
lyricists_name: Albano, G
lyricists_id: GLALB95
full_text_status: public
series: Discussion Papers in Economics
number: 04-05
place_of_pub: London, UK
issn: 1350-6722
citation:        Albano, G.L.;    Leaver, C.;      (2004)    Transparency, recruitment and retention in the public sector.                    (Discussion Papers in Economics  04-05). Department of Economics, University College London: London, UK.       Green open access   
 
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/2573/1/2573.pdf