Job Satisfaction and Preference for Public Employment

Carlos Gamero-Burón () and Ma Dolores García-Crespo ()
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Carlos Gamero-Burón: University of Malaga
Ma Dolores García-Crespo: University of Malaga

Public Organization Review, 2025, vol. 25, issue 3, No 38, 1605-1629

Abstract: Abstract This paper aims to identify the factors why the working population declares its preference for public jobs. For this objective, we use microdata from a nationally representative Spanish survey and include overall job satisfaction and job facets satisfaction in the current job and information on work values as additional regressors to explain why employees prefer to work in the public sector. The main result of our estimates is that the satisfaction variables are significant factors explaining the preference for public jobs. The empirical evidence also shows that women prefer public jobs more than men, regardless of their professional situation.

Keywords: Job satisfaction; Gender; Public employment; Logit model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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