I have blogged before about some papers that examine the role of intrinsic motivation in public services delivery. This is examined in the context of pro-social motivation and public service delivery by Gregg et al below. This is the latest in a series of papers examining the role of intrinsinc motivation, perceptions of autonomy and other non-financial aspects in driving labour supply.
How important is pro-social behaviour in the delivery of public services?
Date: 2008-05
By: Paul Gregg
Paul A. Grout
Anita Ratcliffe
Sarah Smith
Frank Windmeijer
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:bri:cmpowp:08/197&r=cbe
A number of papers have posited that there is a relationship between institutional structure and pro-social behaviour, in particular donated labour, in the delivery of public services, such as health, social care and education. However, there has been very little empirical research that attempts to measure whether such a relationship exists in practice. This is the aim of this paper. Including a robust set of individual and job-specific controls, we find that individuals in the non-profit sector are significantly more likely to donate their labour, measured by unpaid overtime, than those in the for-profit sector. We can reject that this difference is simply due to implicit contracts or social norms. We find some evidence that individuals differentially select into the non-profit and for-profit sectors according to whether they donate their labour.
Keywords: pro-social behaviour; public services; donated labour; motivation
JEL: H11 J32 J45 L31 L32
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