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Professor Anthony Scott leads the Health Economics Research Program at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne and is an Honorary Professor at HERU.
The title of the seminar is 'Pro-social motivation and public sector work: evidence from physicians'.
Abstract: Pro-social motivation amongst health professionals is arguably stronger than in other sectors, yet there are few studies exploring whether pro-social motivation exists and its role in decision making by health professionals. We examine physicians’ preferences for public sector work, whilst accounting for other differences in the characteristics of jobs. Results from a discrete choice experiment show that physicians prefer to work in the public sector, though the value of working in the public sector is very small at 0.14% of their annual earnings to work an additional half-day per week in the private sector. Those with relatively low earnings prefer public sector work and those with high earnings prefer private sector work. Contrary to other studies that show risk averse individuals prefer public sector work, for physicians we find that those averse to taking career or clinical risks prefer to work in the private sector. Other job characteristics are much more important than the sector of work.
The seminar will take place between 1pm and 2pm, with a sandwich lunch at 12.30pm.
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