The grass is greener, but why? Evidence of employees’ perceived sector mismatch from the US, New Zealand, and Taiwan

• Main Authors: Chen, Chung-An, Bozeman, Barry, Berman, Evan
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Social sciences::Political science; Sector Preference; Sector Mismatch
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84191; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/50187
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

To answer the question of who wants to work for the government, scholars have relied on a few approaches, including sector preference, sector-based comparison of work motives, and sector-switching patterns of job mobility. The present study offers a related but distinct approach: perceived sector mi...