Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/86482 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 05-027/1
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
This paper employs survey data on the reasons to quit of Dutch job changers who entered or left a public sector job in 2001. We show that workers' reasons to quit their public sector job influence their decision to stay in or leave their industry of employment. A bad experience with, for instance, pay, work pressure, or job duties makes a change in industry more likely. Likewise, many workers who quit out of dissatisfaction with pay or management leave the public sector altogether. Lastly, it is shown that workers' reasons to quit fully explain the differences in wage growth between intra- and interindustry job movers.
Subjects: 
Reasons to quit
Job mobility
Wages
Change in industry
Public sector workers
JEL: 
J28
J31
J33
J45
J63
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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