Work-Life Balance and National Context in Attraction to Public Employment

Michael C. Moltz

International Journal of Public Administration, 2019, vol. 42, issue 4, 334-344

Abstract: What explains preferences for public employment versus private business employment. Much of the extant literature considers this topic within the context of single-nation studies and the work motives of those individuals already employed by government. This study contributes to the public-management literature with a cross-national examination of government employment preferences across 31 national samples using data from the International Social Survey Programme. Results indicate that a desire for more work-life balance is negatively associated with a preference for government employment and that measures of national economic health help explain the variation in preferences for government employment across nations.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/01900692.2018.1463247

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