@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp8239,
            	author={Dur, Robert and Zoutenbier, Robin},
            	title={Intrinsic Motivations of Public Sector Employees: Evidence for Germany},
            	year={2014},
	month={Jun},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={8239},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8239},
	abstract={We examine differences in altruism and laziness between public sector employees and private sector employees. Our theoretical model predicts that the likelihood of public sector employment increases with a worker's altruism, and increases or decreases with a worker's laziness depending on his altruism. Using questionnaire data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we find that public sector employees are significantly more altruistic and lazy than observationally equivalent private sector employees. A series of robustness checks show that these patterns are stronger among higher educated workers; that the sorting of altruistic people to the public sector takes place only within the caring industries; and that the difference in altruism is already present at the start of people's career, while the difference in laziness is only present for employees with sufficiently long work experience.},
	keywords={public service motivation;altruism;laziness;sorting;public sector employment;personality characteristics},
            }