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AbouAssi, Khaldoun Johnson, Jasmine McGinnis Holt, Stephen B. |
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Job Mobility Among Millennials: Do They Stay or Do They Go? Review of Public Personnel Administration published online (15 September 2019): DOI: 10.1177/0734371X19874396. Also: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0734371X19874396 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Sage Publications Keyword(s): Job Satisfaction; Job Turnover; Volunteer Work Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Millennials are a substantial segment of the workforce; they are perceived to be driven by higher pay, quick to be dissatisfied and leave a job, and committed to volunteering. This article examines how these perceptions translate to job mobility in terms of job switching within and across sectors, without drawing cross-generation comparisons. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 cohort (NLSY97) from 2008 to 2013, we notice a trend among millennials of frequent job switching within rather than across sectors. Job dissatisfaction is the strongest predictor of public-sector employees switching jobs within the sector. For sector switching, we find some variation: Low pay corresponds with exiting the nonprofit sector, whereas job dissatisfaction is the strongest predictor of leaving the public sector. Millennials working in the public and nonprofit sectors are less likely to switch sectors if they volunteer. Implications for theory and practice are discussed. |
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AbouAssi, Khaldoun, Jasmine McGinnis Johnson and Stephen B. Holt. "Job Mobility Among Millennials: Do They Stay or Do They Go?" Review of Public Personnel Administration published online (15 September 2019): DOI: 10.1177/0734371X19874396.
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Jacinto, Alberto |
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A Tradition of Public Service in Families Review of Public Personnel Administration published online (17 September 2022): DOI: 10.1177/0734371X221123296. Also: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0734371X221123296 Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: Institute of Public Affairs, University of South Carolina Keyword(s): Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Occupational Choice; Parental Influences; Public Sector While much is known about the public sector workforce, less is known about parental influences as a determinant of public sector work. This paper begins to answer this question by estimating a simple model of intergenerational transmission to test whether public sector work is passed down in families. Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and its intergenerational component indicate that children of public sector mothers are five percentage points (42%) more likely to work in the public sector than the children of private sector mothers. Heterogeneity analyses reveal the important role unions play in the transmission of public sector work. However, the main results do not vary by child race or gender. The results have implications for recruitment strategies in the public sector and highlight the role of parents as possible sources of public service motivation for children. |
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Jacinto, Alberto. "A Tradition of Public Service in Families." Review of Public Personnel Administration published online (17 September 2022): DOI: 10.1177/0734371X221123296.
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Steel, Brent S. Warner, Rebecca L. |
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Job Satisfaction Among Early Labor Force Participants: Unexpected Outcomes in Public and Private Sector Comparisons Review of Public Personnel Administration 10,3 (Summer 1990): 4-22 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Institute of Public Affairs, University of South Carolina Keyword(s): Job Satisfaction; Private Sector; Public Sector A systematic investigation is presented of the level of job satisfaction among a national cross-section of early labor force participants in the public and private employment sectors in the late 1980s. The NLSY was the source of the data. Although conventional wisdom has suggested that there is a crisis in the level of job satisfaction among public sector employees due to extensive bureaucrat bashing and working in overly rigid organizations, the findings suggest that public sector employees manifest significantly higher levels of job satisfaction than their private sector counterparts. After controlling for a number of background, personal, and situational factors, the higher level of public sector job satisfaction remains. It is evident from the analyses that the public sector has been successful in attracting and keeping qualified and highly motivated young employees. [ABI/INFORM] |
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Steel, Brent S. and Rebecca L. Warner. "Job Satisfaction Among Early Labor Force Participants: Unexpected Outcomes in Public and Private Sector Comparisons." Review of Public Personnel Administration 10,3 (Summer 1990): 4-22.
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