Personality and public sector employment in Finland
Abstract
Using long-term Finnish register data on labor market outcomes, we examine how personality traits predict the sorting of individuals into public and private sector employment. Our findings suggest that personality-based sectoral sorting primarily occurs during the selection of educational fields. Once education and occupation are controlled for, public sector employment is negatively related to self-confidence among males and extraversion among females. We also find that pecuniary incentives and shifts between the sectors may partly explain these relationships. Overall, our empirical results, combined with values that we use as theoretical mechanisms, suggest that values may serve as mediators explaining our results.
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Format
Articles
Research article
Published
2024
Series
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Publication in research information system
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
The permanent address of the publication
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202402141853Käytä tätä linkitykseen.
Review status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1121-7081
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/labr.12260
Language
English
Published in
Labour
Citation
- Maczulskij, T., & Viinikainen, J. (2024). Personality and public sector employment in Finland. Labour, 38(1), 122-149. https://doi.org/10.1111/labr.12260
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