Les salariés du secteur associatif sont-ils davantage intrinsèquement motivés que ceux du secteur privé ?

Mathieu Narcy

Economie & Prévision, 2009, vol. n° 188, issue 2, 81-99

Abstract: The nonprofit sector differs from the for-profit sector both in its more socially-oriented goals and in its differententrepreneurship methods. It may therefore appeal to workers whose job choices are guided by non-monetaryconsiderations. Nonprofit organizations may thus attract more intrinsically motivated workers than for-profit firms. Ourempirical analysis uses the French Labor-Force Survey. The results show that nonprofit workers ? unlike for-profitworkers ? deliberately agree to work for lower wages than they could have obtained in the for-profit sector. These resultstherefore suggest that nonprofit workers report higher levels of intrinsic motivation than their for-profit counterparts.

Keywords: nonprofit sector; intrinsic motivation; wage differentials (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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