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.

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好牧羊人去哪里？公民美德与公共部门就业分类

摘要一些研究分析了在公共部门与私营部门工作的动机。但是，在公共部门就业中对亲社会动机的研究在很大程度上忽略了公民美德，即为社会做出贡献的动机。这项研究除了使用其他可能的动机之外，还考虑了公民美德，使用了德国员工的代表性纵向数据集，包括对13,683个不同个人的63,180个观察结果。我们发现，公民道德与利他主义，规避风险，懒惰和（低）财务动机之外的公共部门就业有着积极的关系。结果保存在不同的分支机构中，并按部门进行解释。