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Public wage spillovers : the role of individual characteristics and employer wage policies
Telegdy, Álmos - 2017
Using a large and unexpected public wage increase in Hungary which changed the public wage premium in 2002 from -17 to … wage effects and a corresponding elasticity of 0.96. The spillover affected primarily the wages of males, young workers and … the highly educated. The analysis also finds that employers raised the wages of incumbent, rather than, newly hired …
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Wages, employment and incentives in the public sector in Hungary
Kézdi, Gábor - 1998
The paper analyzes the changes in the relative labor market position of the public sector employees, using both macro-level employment statistics and large wage surveys. While competitive employment decreased by more than 30 per cent during the transition, number of public employees have not...
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Is local public sector rent extraction higher in progressive cities or high amenity cities?
Kahn, Matthew E. - 2017
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Differences in positions along a hierarchy : counterfactuals based on an assignment model
Gobillon, Laurent; Meurs, Dominique; Roux, Sébastien - In: Annals of economics and statistics 145 (2022), pp. 29-74
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The intensity of COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions and labor market outcomes in the public sector
Marcén, Miriam; Morales, Marina - 2020
This paper examines whether the intensity of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) during the COVID-19 pandemic has differentially impacted the public sector labor market outcomes. This extends the analysis of the already documented negative economic consequences from COVID-19 and their...
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Public employment in the Middle East and North Africa : does a changing public sector workforce in the MENA region provide an opportunity for efficient restructuring?
Asʿad, Rāǧī; Barsūm, Ġāda - 2019
Public sector hiring has been an essential component of the social bargains that have maintained political stability in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). As these bargains eroded, public sector workforces contracted in relative terms owing to a partial freeze on hiring and the promise of...
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Together we rule, divided we stand : public employers as semisovereign state actors and the political economy of public sector wage restraint in Germany
Di Carlo, Donato - 2019
Europe” at the turn of the century, it is now considered, depending on the point of view, either an “economic superstar” or a … equilibrium in which public wages can only be set as a lowest common denominator taking into consideration the poorer employers …
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The fiscal and macroeconomic effects of government wages and employment reform
Pérez, Javier J.; Aouriri, Marie; Campos, Maria M.; … - 2016
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The impact of wage-setting institutions on the incidence of public employment in the OECD : 1960 - 98
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2002
Using data on 17 OECD countries for 1960-98, this paper studies the impact of unions on public employment incidence, using macrodata and microdata. Macrodata show that greater coverage by centralized collective bargaining institutions raises the public employment share, controlling for country...
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The Employment Effect of Reforming a Public Employment Agency
Launov, Andrey - 2015
By how much does an increase in operating effectiveness of a public employment agency (PEA) and a reduction of unemployment benefits reduce unemployment? Using a recent labour market reform in Germany as background, we find that an enhanced effectiveness of the PEA explains about 20% of the...
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