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90 GPs, of those who preferred salaried position (N = 362), did not provide an answer to this question.
Neither can we rule out that those who preferred salaried contracts would have become more productive if they had been allowed to work on salaried contracts.
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Young and female GPs are overrepresented among those who prefer salaried positions (see crude percentages in Table 2).
Furthermore, numerous studies show that there is preference heterogeneity across subgroups of doctors, with females in particular having stronger tendency to prefer salaried contracts [ 6, 11, 12].
Similar results were obtained in the regression model based on the sample from 2009 [ 20].b Those who live in small municipalities are considerably more likely to prefer salaried positions.
Also the findings that those who work more hours and have more patients listed than desired prefer salaried contracts might potentially be explained by differences in productivity, i.e. those who struggle with excessive workload are likely to be less productive (on average) than those who manage to control their workload.
The proportion who prefer salary with bonuses increases from 16%to24%4%, while the proportion preferring salary without bonuses doubles from 6%to12%2%, i.e. the proportion preferring a salaried position increases from 22%to36%6%to36%
The majority of those who initially preferred private practice answered that they would either prefer salary (35%) or be indifferent between salary and private practice (27%) if the listed job attributes would be the same in a salaried position.
Social security/benefits, administrative work and employer responsibility were frequently mentioned reasons why GPs would still prefer a salaried position even if the listed job attributes were equal in private practice (see Table 5).
Given the choice, he would prefer to be salaried because he is always in debt.
Empirical evidences also show that a person who reaches graduate level has fear of risk-taking and prefers to be salaried than involving in self-employment.
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