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The Impact of Matching Mission Preferences on Well-being at Work

Zoutenbier, Robin - 2014

A recent literature in economics assumes that workers differ in their mission preferences. These studies predict a premium on the matching of mission preferences between a worker and employer. This paper uses data from the Dutch LISS panel to examine this prediction for government workers....

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Intrinsic Motivations of Public Sector Employees: Evidence for Germany

Dur, Robert; Zoutenbier, Robin - 2012

We examine differences in altruism and laziness between public sector employees and private sector employees. Our theoretical model predicts that the likelihood of public sector employment increases with a worker's altruism, and increases or decreases with a worker's laziness depending on his...

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Working for a Good Cause

Dur, Robert; Zoutenbier, Robin - 2011

A rich literature in public administration has shown that public sector employees have stronger altruistic motivations than private sector employees. Recent economic theories stress the importance of mission preferences, and predict that altruistic people sort into the public sector when they...

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Working for a good cause

Dur, Robert A. J.; Zoutenbier, Robin - 2012

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Incentives and Workers' Motivation in the Public Sector

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert - 2004

motivation, and characterise optimal incentive contracts for public sector workers under different informational assumptions …

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Incentives and workers' motivation in the public sector

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert - 2004

motivation, and characterise optimal incentive contracts for public sector workers under different informational assumptions … out workers with a public service motivation. When effort is verifiable, the government optimally attracts motivated …

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High Performance Work Systems and Public Sector Workplace Performance in Britain

White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - 2019

Using nationally representative surveys of workplaces with 50 or more employees we find the adoption of High-Performance Work Systems (HPWS) in the public sector are positively correlated with workplace financial performance and the implementation of workplace organizational change. The...

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The Impact of High-Performance Work Systems on Employees: A Sectoral Comparison

White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - 2019

different employment relationships and different sources of employee motivation. …

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Sector switching in Germany

Prümer, Stephanie - 2021

Changes in the employment sector over the course of a career, i.e., employees switching from the private to the public sector or vice versa, are a common phenomenon. These sector switches have hardly been studied so far. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel I give insights into sector...

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Where does the good shepherd go? Civic virtue and sorting into public sector employment

Ayaita, Omar Adam; Gülal, Filiz; Yang, Philip - 2017

prosocial motivation, others focus on need for security (risk aversion). However, the study of prosocial motivation in the … context of public sector employment has largely focused on altruism and neglected other forms of prosocial motivation, in … between prosocial motivation and public sector employment is due to selection at the career start or socialization during the …

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