01105pab a2200181 454500 180718b2014 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Dur, Robert Working for a good cause 2014 p.144-155. Mar-Apr A rich literature in public administration has shown that public sector employees have stronger altruistic motivations than private sector employees. Recent economic theories stress the importance of mission preferences and predict that altruistic people sort into the public sector when they subscribe to its mission. This article uses data from a representative survey of more than 30,000 employees from 50 countries to test this prediction. The authors find strong evidence of a mutually reinforcing role of altruism and mission alignment in sorting into the public sector, particularly among highly educated workers and among workers in less-developed countries. - Reproduced. Public administration Zoutenbier, Robin Public Administration Review N 104313 104309 104309 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 74, Issue no: 2 AR104773 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR