The increased importance of sector switching: A study of trends over a 27 year period

TY - JOUR

T1 - The increased importance of sector switching

T2 - A study of trends over a 27 year period

AU - Frederiksen, Anders

AU - Hansen, Jesper Rosenberg

N1 - Campus adgang til artiklen / Campus access to the article

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

N2 - Sector switching is an important phenomenon that casts light on public–private differences. Yet our knowledge about its prevalence and trends is limited. We study sector switching using unique Danish register-based employer–employee data covering more than 25 years. We find that sector switching constitutes 18.5% of all job-to-job mobility, and the trend is increasing both from public to private and from private to public. Sector switching is also generally increasing for middle managers, but for administrative professionals only the flows from private to public increase and for top managers only the flows from public to private increase.

AB - Sector switching is an important phenomenon that casts light on public–private differences. Yet our knowledge about its prevalence and trends is limited. We study sector switching using unique Danish register-based employer–employee data covering more than 25 years. We find that sector switching constitutes 18.5% of all job-to-job mobility, and the trend is increasing both from public to private and from private to public. Sector switching is also generally increasing for middle managers, but for administrative professionals only the flows from private to public increase and for top managers only the flows from public to private increase.

KW - Sector switching

KW - Public-private differences

KW - New public management

U2 - 10.1177/0095399714555750

DO - 10.1177/0095399714555750

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0095-3997

VL - 49

SP - 1015

EP - 1042

JO - Administration & Society

JF - Administration & Society

IS - 7

ER -