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Minimum Wage Incidence: The Case for Germany

Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - CESifo - 2008

affects employment, wage inequality, public expenditures, and aggregate income in the low-wage sector. It is shown that a … employment – depending on the subsidies’ incidence – and income effects. Wage subsidies also allow a more equal income …

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Welfare Policy in the Presence of Unionised Labour and Internationally Mobile Firms

Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - CESifo - 2010

In oligopolistic industries, increased cost saving opportunities via offshoring have a moderating effect on trade unions. In order to discourage mobile firms from leaving the country, unions accept lower sector wages. In effect, the negotiated wage becomes independent of workers’ bargaining...

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Asymmetric Information Renders Minimum Wages Less Harmful

Schöb, Ronnie; Thum, Marcel - CESifo - 2009

We show that a minimum wage introduced in the presence of asymmetric information about worker productivities will lead to lower unemployment levels than predicted by the standard labour market model with heterogeneous labour and symmetric information.

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Minimum Wages and their Alternatives: A Critical Assessment

Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - CESifo - 2008

in Germany, on employment, wage inequality, public expenditures, and incomes of poor households: 1) a statutory minimum … subsidies, the government can ensure more favorable employment and income effects. Combining a minimum wage with a wage subsidy …

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From Public Monopsony to Competitive Market: More Efficiency but Higher Prices

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert - CESifo - 2003

This paper examines the consequences of creating a fully competitive market in a sector previously dominated by a cost-minimising public firm. Workers in the economy are heterogeneous in their motivation to work in the sector. In line with empirical findings, our model implies that firms in the...

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Incentives and Workers’ Motivation in the Public Sector

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert - CESifo - 2004

Civil servants have a bad reputation of being lazy. However, citizens' personal experiences with civil servants appear to be significantly better. We develop a model of an economy in which workers differ in laziness and in public service motivation, and characterise optimal incentive contracts...

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Managerial Talent, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Public Management

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert - CESifo - 2008

The quality of public management is a recurrent concern in many countries. Calls to attract the economy’s best and brightest managers to the public sector abound. This paper studies self-selection into managerial and non-managerial positions in the public and private sector,using a model of a...

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Outsourcing of Unionized Firms and the Impacts of Labour Market Policy Reforms

Koskela, Erkki; Schöb, Ronnie - CESifo - 2008

the share of the outsourced workforce is not too large, this wage-moderation effect on domestic employment outweighs the … direct substitution effect so that domestic employment increases in unionized firms as outsourcing costs fall. This does not … for employment. However, except for low outsourcingactivities, the impact of these policy measures will become smaller as …

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