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

Zoutenbier, Robin - Tinbergen Instituut - 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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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 …

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Incentives and workers' motivation in the public sector : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, May 2004

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J. - 2004

to be significantly better. We develop a model of an economy in which workers differ in laziness and in public service …

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Working for a good cause

Dur, Robert A. J.; Zoutenbier, Robin - 2013

reinforcing role of altruism and mission alignment in sorting to the public sector, particularly among highly educated workers and … among workers in less-developed countries. -- public service motivation ; altruism ; mission preferences ; sorting ; World …

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Public sector employees : risk averse and altruistic?

Buurman, Margaretha; Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; … - 2012

We assess whether public sector employees have a stronger inclination to serve others and are more risk averse than employees in the private sector. A unique feature of our study is that we use revealed rather than stated preferences data. Respondents of a large-scale survey were offered a...