Public service motivation and public sector employment in Korea
利用韩国全国代表性纵向数据，检验公共与私营部门员工公共服务动机差异是源于自我选择还是社会化过程，发现自我选择更能解释公共部门员工动机更高，但入职后所有部门动机均下降。
Abstract This study aims to investigate whether individual differences in public service motivation (PSM) between the public and private sectors are a cause or a consequence of choosing a job, testing self‐selection and socialization hypotheses using a longitudinal dataset from a nationally representative cohort in Korea. The study uses two samples from the data of three successive waves ( t − 2, t , t + 2) surveyed biennially, finding that “self‐selection” can more persuasively explain the state that employees in the public sector have higher levels of PSM than those in the private sector, with job seekers with high PSM levels being more likely to work in the public sector and with the magnitude of differences in PSM between the public and private sectors maintained through the early years after entry into the workplace, while the levels of PSM, however, decrease in all job sectors. Implications of our findings are discussed.