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Self-selection models for public and private sector job satisfaction

In: Jobs, Training, and Worker Well-being

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  • Simon Luechinger
  • Alois Stutzer
  • Rainer Winkelmann

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We discuss a class of copula-based ordered probit models with endogenous switching. Such models can be useful for the analysis of self-selection in subjective well-being equations in general, and job satisfaction in particular, where assignment of regressors may be endogenous rather than random, resulting from individual maximization of well-being. In an application to public and private sector job satisfaction, and using data on male workers from the German Socio-Economic Panel for 2004, and using two alternative copula functions for dependence, we find consistent evidence for endogenous sector selection.

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  • Simon Luechinger & Alois Stutzer & Rainer Winkelmann, 2010. "Self-selection models for public and private sector job satisfaction," Research in Labor Economics, in: Jobs, Training, and Worker Well-being, pages 233-251, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:rleczz:s0147-9121(2010)0000030010
    DOI: 10.1108/S0147-9121(2010)0000030010
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    1. Stefan Boes, 2013. "Nonparametric analysis of treatment effects in ordered response models," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 44(1), pages 81-109, February.
    2. Robert Davidson & Alexander Pacek & Benjamin Radcliff, 2021. "Public Sector Employment, Quality of Government, and Well-Being: A Global Analysis," International Area Studies Review, Center for International Area Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, vol. 24(3), pages 193-204, September.
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