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Comparing Employer Attractiveness of Public Sector Organizations to Nonprofit and Private Sector Organizations: An Experimental Study in Germany and the U.S.
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Abstract
Sector preferences in job choice have rarely been tested empirically across different administrative systems. We address this gap and apply a between-subject experimental design to examine the attractiveness of public, private, and nonprofit employers in two countries in different administrative tra... view more
Sector preferences in job choice have rarely been tested empirically across different administrative systems. We address this gap and apply a between-subject experimental design to examine the attractiveness of public, private, and nonprofit employers in two countries in different administrative traditions. Respondents (n = 362) from an Anglo-Saxon (i.e., the U.S.) and continental European country (i.e., Germany) were exposed to job advertisements that only differed in the employer’s sector affiliation, with other job attributes, such as payment and working hours, held constant. Contrary to expectations, and consistently across the two country samples, respondents evaluated public sector jobs more positively compared to vacancies in the private sector. In contrast, we found no such comparative advantage of public over nonprofit employers. By providing counterevidence to the prevalence of negative attitudes toward public organizations, our study warns against overgeneralizing previous findings on negativity biases to the context of employer attractiveness.... view less
Keywords
ISSP; United States of America; Federal Republic of Germany; labor market; employer; public sector; private sector; non-profit sector; job posting; human resource management; international comparison; work research; labor supply
Classification
Labor Market Research
Free Keywords
employer branding; human resource management; sector attraction; organizational attraction; behavioral public administration; International Social Survey Programme: Work Orientations III - ISSP 2005 (ZA4350 v2.0.0)
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Page/Pages
p. 260-287
Journal
Review of Public Personnel Administration, 43 (2022) 2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0734371X211065349
ISSN
1552-759X
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed