scholarly journals Where Does the Good Shepherd Go? Civic Virtue and Sorting into Public Sector Employment

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. e571-e599 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Ayaita ◽  
Philip Yang ◽  
Filiz Gülal
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Risk Aversion ◽  
Civic Virtue ◽  
The Public ◽  
Prosocial Motivation ◽  
Public Sector Employment ◽  
Public Versus Private ◽  
Longitudinal Dataset

Abstract Several studies have analyzed motives to work in the public versus private sector. However, research on prosocial motivation in the context of public sector employment has largely neglected civic virtue, the motive to contribute to society. This study considers civic virtue in addition to other possible motives, using a representative, longitudinal dataset of employees in Germany including 63,180 observations of 13,683 different individuals. We find that civic virtue relates positively to public sector employment beyond altruism, risk aversion, laziness and (low) financial motivation. The result holds within different branches and is explained by sorting into the sector.

MPA Graduates and the Dilemma of Job Satisfaction: Does Crossing the Sector Line Make a Difference

1991 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barrie E. Blunt ◽  
Kris Anne Spring
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Work Satisfaction ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Employment ◽  
State Regional

This study examines levels of job satisfaction for MPA graduates employed in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. Findings are based on a survey and indicate that MPA graduates derive greater satisfaction with pay and promotion opportunities in the private sector than in the public or non-profit sectors. No significant differences were noted between the sectors with regard to work satisfaction or satisfaction with supervisor or co-workers. Further, no differences in levels of satisfaction were noted between four categories of public sector employment; federal, state, regional, or local.

The Effect of Public Sector Employment on the Earnings of White and African American Males: A Sample Selectivity Approach

1994 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-120
Author(s):  
Michael Greene ◽  
Emily Hoffnar
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Labor Force Participation ◽  
African American Males ◽  
Sample Selection ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Employment ◽  
White Males

This research note uses a sample selection model to measure the earnings premium (or penalty) to public sector employment. A model correcting for both labor force participation and sectoral choice is estimated for both white and African American males. Results indicate that African American males are no better off in the public than in the private sector. Moreover, white males employed in the public sector earn significantly less than their private sector counterparts.

scholarly journals Prosocial Motivation of Private Sector IT Professionals Joining Government

2019 ◽  
pp. 0734371X1988605
Author(s):  
Ines Mergel ◽  
Nicola Bellé ◽  
Greta Nasi
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Work Motivation ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
It Professionals ◽  
The Public ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
Prosocial Motivation ◽  
Public Sector Organizations ◽  
Comprehensive Framework

Attracting highly skilled IT talent has become a priority and an immense burden for government organizations—especially when they have other—higher paying—employment opportunities. We set out to explore why IT professionals choose a government job to make an impact on society. We aim at disentangling the effects of different types of motives, such as extrinsic, intrinsic, and other-oriented motivational forces on the decision to accept a challenging government IT job. We use self-determination theory (SDT) to analyze publicly available statements of former private sector IT professionals reporting their reason for joining 18F. Our study is one of the first attempts to use SDT as a comprehensive framework for conducting qualitative research into work motivation in the public sector. We shed light on the conceptual and empirical distinctiveness of motives, behaviors, and perceptions of prosocial impact, which are often lumped together in the public service motivation (PSM) literature. We contribute novel empirical evidence to a nascent stream of research that uses SDT to disentangle the intrinsic, prosocial, and purely extrinsic motives that drive individuals’ decisions to join public-sector organizations.

scholarly journals Awareness and Inclination towards Entrepreneurship among college students of Kashmir

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shabir Majeed
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Political Instability ◽  
Entrepreneurial Education ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Employment ◽  
Career Option ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

Kashmir region is a land locked area and the employment opportunities in the public sector are very limited. The private sector has not taken off due to the prevailing political instability. With limited public sector employment opportunities and troubled private sector, the sizable population of Kashmir population comprises of youth. Thereby, this paper intends to focus on youth’s awareness and willingness especially the college students to take up entrepreneurship. The study has used a structured questionnaire and observation to examine the awareness and willingness to take up entrepreneurship as career option. The questionnaire has been drafted to know the reasons of entrepreneurship awareness whether negative or positive. The results have shown up very little awareness among the college students which is largely due to the lack of entrepreneurial education, mindset of parents and individual desire of youth.

Arbitration in Practice: A Profile of Public Sector Arbitration Cases

1996 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debra J. Mesch ◽  
Olga Shamayeva
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Or Management ◽  
The Public ◽  
Winning Percentage ◽  
Dispute Settlements ◽  
Public Versus Private ◽  
Labor Arbitration

The purpose of this paper is to describe the types of cases typically brought to arbitration in the public sector and to analyze the pattern of case resolutions—in what areas is the grievant or management more likely to win, lose, or reach some compromise. Additionally, comparisons of public versus private arbitration cases are examined. The authors analyzed 994 public sector arbitration cases from Labor Arbitration Reports: Dispute Settlements over a seven year period of time (1985–1992). Each case was coded according to the parties involved in the dispute, the type of case, and case resolution. The results of this study suggest that a wide variety of cases are brought to arbitration in the public sector and, depending on the type of grievance, the outcome is quite different. Furthermore, although more cases are found in favor of the union in the public sector rather than private sector, management in both the public and private sectors experience a higher winning percentage. Finally, the results indicate that significantly more termination and fewer suspension cases are brought to arbitration in the private than public sector.

scholarly journals Risk Aversion and Sorting into Public Sector Employment

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Pfeifer
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Risk Aversion ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Risk Attitudes ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Employment ◽  
German Socioeconomic Panel ◽  
Unemployment Risk ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This research note uses two German datasets - the large-scale German Socioeconomic Panel and unique data from own student questionnaires - to analyse the relationship between risk aversion and the choice for public sector employment. Main results are (1) more risk-averse individuals sort into public sector employment, (2) the impact of career-specific and unemployment risk attitudes is larger than the impact of general risk attitudes and (3) risk taking is rewarded with higher wages in the private but not in the public sector.

Who becomes a public sector employee?

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 567-579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terhi Maczulskij
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Genetic Factors ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Employment ◽  
Public Sector Employee ◽  
Sector Employee

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which individual characteristics are related to the decision to become a public sector employee using twin study data matched with register-based, individual-level panel data for the 1991-2009 period. Design/methodology/approach The probability of public sector entry is examined using fixed effects logit regression to control for shared environmental and genetic factors. Findings The results show that unobserved factors partially explain the well-documented relationships between many individual characteristics and public sector employment choice. However, the results also show that highly educated and more extraverted individuals are more likely to enter public sector employment, even when both shared environmental and genetic factors are controlled for. Workers also tend to exit the private sector to enter the public sector at lower wage levels. Originality/value The twin design used in this paper represents a contribution to the existing literature. This paper is also the first to examine the probability of entry into the public sector instead of comparing public sector workers with private sector workers.

scholarly journals Intrinsic Motivations of Public Sector Employees: Evidence for Germany

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Dur ◽  
Robin Zoutenbier
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Questionnaire Data ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Employment ◽  
Public Sector Employees ◽  
Intrinsic Motivations ◽  
The Difference

AbstractWe 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 altruism. Using questionnaire data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we find that public sector employees are significantly more altruistic and lazy than observationally equivalent private sector employees. A series of robustness checks show that these patterns are stronger among higher educated workers; that the sorting of altruistic people to the public sector takes place only within the caring industries; and that the difference in altruism is already present at the start of people’s career, while the difference in laziness is only present for employees with sufficiently long work experience.

scholarly journals Are Public Sector Workers More Risk Averse Than Private Sector Workers?

ILR Review ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 408-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don Bellante ◽  
Albert N. Link
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Risk Aversion ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Probit Analysis ◽  
Income Dynamics ◽  
The Public ◽  
Economic Reasoning ◽  
The University ◽  
High Degree

Available evidence suggests that stability of employment is greater in the public sector than in the private sector. The value that individuals place on this stability depends on the individual's degree of risk aversion. Economic reasoning suggests that, other things equal, those individuals with a high degree of aversion to risk will be more likely than others to seek employment in the public sector. This paper tests that hypothesis through the use of probit analysis and a measure of risk aversion developed in the University of Michigan's Panel Study of Income Dynamics. The results tend to confirm the hypothesis, implying that a policy of intersectoral equality of pay for comparable jobs would result in an excess supply of workers to the public sector.

Mobility as a Service Operating Model to Enable Public Policy

2021 ◽  
pp. 036119812110266
Author(s):  
Christina Joy Ditmore ◽  
Angela K. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Operating Model ◽  
The Public ◽  
Equity And Access ◽  
Policy Goals

Mobility as a Service (MaaS) is the concept through which travelers plan, book, and pay for public or private transport on a single platform using either a service or subscription-based model. Observations of current projects identified two distinct approaches to enabling MaaS: the private-sector approach defined as a “business model,” and the public sector approach that manifests as an “operating model.” The distinction between these models is significant. MaaS provides a unique opportunity for the public sector to set and achieve public policy goals by leveraging emerging technologies in favor of the public good. Common policy goals that relate to transportation include equity and access considerations, environmental impact, congestion mitigation, and so forth. Strategies to address these policy goals include behavioral incentivization and infrastructure reallocation. This study substantiates two models for implementing MaaS and expanding on the public sector approach, to enable policy in favor of the public good.

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