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Disentangling the role of contract types and sector disparities for public service motivation

Grund, Christian; Thommes, Kirsten - 2015

The intention of "doing good for society" is regarded to be a crucial motivator for employees in the public sector in order for them to perform well. Recent research in the public sector literature calls for a deeper understanding of how this specific public service motivation (PSM) is shaped....

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Does job support make workers happy?

Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Kauhanen, Antti; … - 2017

Using linked employer-employee data for Finland we examine associations between job design and ten measures of worker wellbeing. In accordance with Karasek's (1979) model we find positive correlations between many aspects of worker wellbeing and job control. However, contrary to the model, job...

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Modelling Australian public service careers

Breunig, Robert; Hansell, David; Win, Nu Nu - 2023

We investigate whether being female, from a non-English speaking background (NESB) or having a disability affects career advancement in the Australian Public Service. Over the past twenty years, women have become more likely to get promoted at senior ranks than similar men and just as likely at...

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The effect of computer use on job quality : evidence from Europe

Menon, Seetha; Salvatori, Andrea; Zwysen, Wouter - 2018

This paper studies changes in computer use and job quality in the EU-15 between 1995 and 2015. We document that while the proportion of workers using computers has increased from 40% to more than 60% over twenty years, there remain significant differences between countries even within the same...

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Working conditions and job satisfaction of China's new generation of migrant workers : evidence from an inland city

Wang, Huashu; Lei Pan; Heerink, Nico - 2013

China is experiencing notable changes in rural-urban migration. Young, more educated migrants with different attitudes … in medium and small size cities, often located in western and central China. Understanding the characteristics and … inland China. The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into the characteristics, working conditions and job attitudes …

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Job satisfaction and public service motivation

Kaiser, Lutz C. - 2014

Based on a unique case study-dataset, the paper analyses job satisfaction and public service motivation in Germany. A special issue of the investigation is related to the evaluation of performance pay scales that were introduced some years ago to German public employees within the frame of...

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Job satisfaction and self-selection into the public or private sector : evidence from a natural experiment

Danzer, Natalia - 2013

Are public sector jobs better than private sector jobs? To answer this question, this paper investigates observed differences in job satisfaction between public- and private-sector workers and disentangles the effect of worker sorting from the one caused by sector-specific job characteristics. A...

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Share capitalism and worker wellbeing

Bryson, Alex; Clark, Andrew E.; Freeman, Richard B.; … - 2014

We show that worker wellbeing is not only related to the amount of compensation workers receive but also how they receive it. While previous theoretical and empirical work has often been pre-occupied with individual performance-related pay, we here demonstrate a robust positive link between the...

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Do good working conditions make you work longer? : evidence on retirement decisions using linked survey and register data

Böckerman, Petri; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - 2017

We analyze the potential role of adverse working conditions and management practices in the determination of employees' retirement behavior. Our data contain both comprehensive information regarding perceived job disamenities, job satisfaction, and intentions to retire from nationally...

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Twenty years of job quality in OECD countries : more good news?

Clark, Andrew E.; Kozák, Michal - 2023

The distribution of job quality across workers and the change in job quality over time can be measured by job-domain indices or single-index job-satisfaction. This paper takes both approaches to establish the evolution of job quality over a period from the mid-1990s to the mid-2010s in 13 OECD...

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