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Are public sector workers different? : cross-European evidence from elderly workers and retirees

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-21

We investigate whether public and private sector employees differ in terms of public service motivation using a representative sample of elderly workers from 12 European countries. We find that public sector workers, both those currently employed and those already retired, are significantly more...

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Public sector employees : risk averse and altruistic?

Buurman, Margaretha; Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; … - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 83 (2012) 3, pp. 279-291

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Managerial talent, motivation, and self-selection into public management

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J. - 2008

The quality of public management is a recurrent concern in many countries. Calls to attract the economy's best and brightest managers to the public sector abound. This paper studies self-selection into managerial and non-managerial positions in the public and private sector, using a model of a...

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Intrinsic Motivations of Public Sector Employees : Evidence for Germany

Dur, Robert; Zoutenbier, Robin - 2021

We examine differences in altruism and laziness between public sector employees and private sector employees. Our … decreases with a worker’s laziness depending on his altruism. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we find … altruism is already present at the start of people’s career, while the difference in laziness is only present for employees …

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Disentangling altruism and public service motivation : who exhibits organizational citizenship behaviour?

Piatak, Jaclyn Schede; Holt, Stephen B. - In: Public management review 22 (2020) 7, pp. 949-973

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Public service motivation and prosocial motivation : two sides of the same coin?

Ritz, Adrian; Schott, Carina; Nitzl, Christian; Alfes, … - In: Public management review 22 (2020) 7, pp. 974-998

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Macroeconomic effects of public-sector unions

Vasilev, Aleksandar - 2015

-unionized public sector, namely Germany during the period 1970-2007. The union model is an improvement over a model with exogenous …

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To work or not to work? : effects of temporary public employment on future employment and benefits

Mörk, Eva; Ottosson, Lillit; Vikman, Ulrika - 2022

We evaluate a temporary public sector employment program targeted at individuals with weak labor market attachment, applying dynamic inverse probability weighting to account for dynamic selection. We show that the program is successful in increasing employment and reducing social assistance....

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To work or not to work? : effects of temporary public employment on future employment and benefits

Mörk, Eva; Ottosson, Lillit; Vikman, Ulrika - 2021

We evaluate a temporary public sector employment program targeted at individuals with weak labor market attachment in the City of Stockholm. Having access to rich high-quality individual-level administrative data, we apply dynamic inverse probability weighting, proposed by Van den Berg and...

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Does it pay to go public? : understanding the public-private sector wage gap in Germany

Bonaccolto-Töpfer, Marina; Castagnetti, Carolina; … - 2021

-private sector wage gap in Germany based on a fixed effect quantile approach. The results reveal substantial differences in the … privaten Sektor in Deutschland und liefert dabei erste Evidenz, die auf einem Quantilsansatz mit fixen Effekten beruht. Mit …

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