Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/214455 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
CREMA Working Paper No. 2009-28
Publisher: 
Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA), Basel
Abstract: 
The purpose of this study is to investigate the determinants of police officersÕ willingness to quit their current department. For this purpose, we work with US survey data that covers a large set of police officers of the Baltimore Police Department in Maryland. Our results indicate that more effective cooperation between units, a higher trust in the work partner, a higher level of interactional justice and a higher level of work-life-balance reduces police officersÕ willingness to quit the department substantially. On the other hand, higher physical and psychological stress and the experience of traumatic events are not, ceteris paribus, correlated with the willingness to leave the department. It might be that police officers accept stress as an acceptable factor in their job description.
Subjects: 
Willingness to Quit the Job
Turnover Rates: Job Satisfaction
Stress
Police Officers
Work-Life Balance
Fairness
Acceptance
JEL: 
I10
I12
I31
J24
J81
Z13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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