Does Public-Sector Employment Fully Crowd Out Private-Sector Employment?

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.

Download Full-text

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

The Review of Black Political Economy ◽

10.1007/bf02692738 ◽

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.

Download Full-text

Self-Selection into Public Service When Corruption is Widespread: The Anomalous Russian Case

Comparative Political Studies ◽

10.1177/0010414020957669 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 001041402095766

Author(s):

Jordan Gans-Morse ◽

Alexander Kalgin ◽

Andrei Klimenko ◽

Dmitriy Vorobyev ◽

Andrei Yakovlev

Keyword(s):

Public Sector ◽

Private Sector ◽

Federal Government ◽

Public Service ◽

Career Paths ◽

Civil Service ◽

Public Sector Employment ◽

Self Selection ◽

Demographic Traits ◽

Experimental Games

Drawing on experimental games and surveys conducted with students at two universities in Russia, we compare the behavioral, attitudinal, and demographic traits of students seeking public sector employment to the traits of their peers seeking jobs in the private sector. Contrary to similar studies conducted in other high-corruption contexts, such as India, we find evidence that students who prefer a public sector career display less willingness to cheat or bribe in experimental games as well as higher levels of altruism. However, disaggregating public sector career paths reveals distinctions between the federal civil service and other types of public sector employment, with federal government positions attracting students who exhibit some similarities with their peers aspiring to private sector careers. We discuss multiple interpretations consistent with our findings, each of which has implications for the creation of effective anti-corruption policies and for understanding of state capacity in contexts where corruption is widespread.

Download Full-text

Awareness and Inclination towards Entrepreneurship among college students of Kashmir

IRA-International Journal of Management & Social Sciences (ISSN 2455-2267) ◽

10.21013/jmss.v3.n2.p7 ◽

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.

Download Full-text

Basic Needs: Paternalistic Government Welfare Policy with Distortionary Taxation

Public Finance Quarterly ◽

10.1177/109114218701500304 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 15 (3) ◽

pp. 298-321 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Thomas D. Birch

Keyword(s):

Public Sector ◽

Private Sector ◽

General Equilibrium ◽

Welfare Policy ◽

Basic Needs ◽

Optimal Level ◽

Welfare Recipient ◽

Public Sector Employment ◽

Distortionary Taxation ◽

The Government

This article analyzes government welfare policy in a general equilibrium setting with distortionary taxation. Government welfare policy is in accordance with the preferences of donor-taxpayers who want the consumption-leisure bundle of recipients to satisfy “basic needs.” The main focus is on the optimal level of employment for a destitute welfare recipient from the donor-taxpayer's perspective. This optimal level depends on the distortionary cost of taxation, whether the donor regards leisure or work as a basic “need,” and the distribution of the recipient's income if work is required. It is argued that donor appropriation of income resulting from mandatory recipient work in the private sector is not necessarily superior to either letting recipients retain their income or having the government appropriate the recipient's income from mandatory public sector employment.

Download Full-text

Introduction to Practicing Anthropology in the Private Sector: Reflections on Work Experiences and Opportunities for the Future of Business Anthropology

Practicing Anthropology ◽

10.17730/praa.36.2.4576248523247508 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 36 (2) ◽

pp. 2-4

Author(s):

Amy Goldmacher ◽

Amy Santee

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Public Sector ◽

Private Sector ◽

Training Programs ◽

Meaningful Work ◽

The United States ◽

Work Experiences ◽

Customer Needs ◽

For Profit ◽

Public Sector Employment

Practicing anthropology in the private sector has been ongoing since the 1970s, when the number of anthropologists graduating with Ph.D.s exceeded the number of available academic positions in the United States, and when these anthropologists found employment in business and industry (Baba 1994). In the decades since, the potential for anthropologists' employment in the private sector is seemingly ever-increasing, as for-profit organizations continue to grow globally, encounter unfamiliar markets, focus more on customer needs, and require innovation (see, e.g., Cefkin's 2009 discussion on the growth of ethnography as a desired corporate competency). Although there are several MA and Ph.D. programs that focus specifically on business and design anthropology, the steps toward building a career and doing meaningful work as a business anthropologist remain relatively unclear for many anthropologists trained in traditional anthropology programs or in applied training programs that focus more on public sector employment.

Download Full-text

Can Bureaucrats Really Be Paid Like Ceos? Substitution Between Incentives and Resources Among School Administrators in China

Journal of the European Economic Association ◽

10.1093/jeea/jvy047 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 165-201

Author(s):

Renfu Luo ◽

Grant Miller ◽

Scott Rozelle ◽

Sean Sylvia ◽

Marcos Vera-Hernández

Keyword(s):

Public Sector ◽

Private Sector ◽

Randomized Trial ◽

School Administrators ◽

Rural China ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Performance Incentives ◽

Crowd Out ◽

Study Performance

Abstract Unlike performance incentives for private sector managers, little is known about performance incentives for managers in public sector bureaucracies. Through a randomized trial in rural China, we study performance incentives rewarding school administrators for reducing student anemia—as well as complementarity between incentives and orthogonally assigned discretionary resources. Large (but not small) incentives and unrestricted grants both reduced anemia, but incentives were more cost-effective. Although unrestricted grants and small incentives do not interact, grants fully crowd-out the effect of larger incentives. Our findings suggest that performance incentives can be effective in bureaucratic environments, but they are not complementary to discretionary resources.

Download Full-text

Public Sector Employment and Voter Turnout

American Political Science Review ◽

10.1017/s000305542100099x ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-7 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

BENNY GEYS ◽

RUNE J. SØRENSEN

Keyword(s):

Public Sector ◽

Private Sector ◽

Voter Turnout ◽

Causal Effect ◽

Cross Sectional Survey ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Individual Level ◽

Public Sector Employment ◽

Data Limitations ◽

Private And Public

Does working in the public rather than the private sector have a causal effect on electoral participation? Extant evidence using cross-sectional survey data remains unpersuasive due to data limitations and concerns posed by preference-based job selection. We address these challenges using population-wide individual-level register data on voter turnout covering four Norwegian local and national elections between 2013 and 2019. We identify causal effects by tracking the same individuals over time during (a) shifts between private- and public-sector employment, (b) relocations between municipalities, and (c) shifts into retirement. We find that local public-sector employees display 1–3 percentage points higher voter turnout compared with private-sector employees. These effects arise particularly when working in their residential municipality, but they largely dissipate upon retirement.

Download Full-text