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The Early Modern Great Divergence: Wages, Prices and Economic Development in Europe and Asia, 1500-1800
Broadberry, Stephen N; Gupta, Bishnupriya - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
northwestern parts. In the advanced parts of India and China, grain wages were comparable to those in northwestern Europe, but … wages of northwestern Europe were not simply a monetary phenomenon, but reflected high productivity in the tradable sector … 1500 and 1800 look similar to the stagnating southern, central and eastern parts of Europe rather than the developing …
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Incentives in the Public Sector: Some Preliminary Evidence from a UK Government Agency
Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; Ratto, Marisa; Tominey, Emma - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
This Paper evaluates the impact of a team-based incentive scheme piloted in the public sector agency, Jobcentre Plus. The way the scheme has been designed raises many questions for which theory makes predictions. We test these predictions against our data. We find that team size affects the...
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Incentives in the Public Sector: Evidence from a Government Agency
Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; Ratto, Marisa; Tominey, Emma - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot scheme of incentives in a major government agency. The incentive scheme was based on teams and covered quantity and quality targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We...
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Public Sector Pay and Corruption: Measuring Bribery from Micro Data
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
employees. In the case of Ukraine, we find that public sector employees receive 24-32% less wages than their private sector …
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Wage Structure and Public Sector Employment: Sweden versus the United States 1970-2002
Domeij, David; Ljungqvist, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
-10 percent. Since then both skill premia have increased by around 10 percentage points in 2002. Theories that equalize wages with …
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Economic Conditions in Early Modern Bengal: A Contribution to the Divergence Debate
Roy, Tirthankar - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
) average income in Bengal was significantly smaller than that in contemporary Western Europe, and (b) there is insufficient …
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Income and schooling
Brückner, Markus; Gradstein, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Whereas existing literature has documented strong correlations between national incomes and measures of schooling attainment, causality has been hard to pin down. Much of empirical work had tended to interpret these correlations as implying an effect of human capital on national income, but...
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Measuring the Transformation of the European Economies: Income, Health and Welfare
Floud, Roderick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1984
The measurement of national income has added greatly to our understanding of economic and social change in Europe over …
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Why do within firm-product export prices differ across markets?
Görg, Holger; Halpern, László; Muraközy, Balázs - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
In this paper we analyse the relationship between gravity variables and f.o.b. export unit values using Hungarian firm-product-destination data. By taking firm-product level selection into account we show that export unit values increase with distance even for particular firm-product...
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Regional Unemployment and Human Capital in Transition Economies
Jurajda, Stepan; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
guaranteed welfare income raising effective minimum wages. …
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