Showing 1 - 10 of 386
study estimates the effects of the minimum wage on both wages and employment using panel data techniques and Brazilian … used. Robust results indicate that an increase in the minimum wage strongly compresses the wages distribution with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761933
I identify wage spillovers from the public to the corporate sector with the help of a large and sudden public sector wage increase, which raised real compensation by 40 percent in two years, changing the average public wage premium from minus 10 to plus 12 percent. Using a dataset covering about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010685367
This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth …, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79). Its focus is upon mid-career promotion and wages … the private sector (and no less likely in the public sector); that wages are increasing in promotion, and the effect is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959521
satisfaction data. We show that, in some sectors, workers enjoy both higher wages and higher job satisfaction. We argue that this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762123
This study is a descriptive analysis of the labor market conditions in Iraqi Federal Kurdistan Region. It explores a number of integrated factors that covariate and determine the level and patterns of the labor market outcomes in the region. In the first step, each of the determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763641
transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude … but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233777
We use data from the European Community Household Panel to investigate the impact of obesity on wages in 9 European … countries, ranging from Ireland to Spain. We find that the common impact of obesity on wages is negative and statistically … wages in the countries of the European "olive belt" and a positive relationship in the countries of the "beer belt". We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761688
study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the data of all countries, we find that cohort size …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822479
Much of the political economy analysis of reform focuses on the conflict of interest between groups that stand to gain or lose from the competing policy proposals. In reality, there is also a lot of disagreement about the working of the policy: in addition to conflicting interests, conflicting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506888
Are public sector jobs better than private sector jobs? To answer this question, this paper investigates observed differences in job satisfaction between public- and private-sector workers and disentangles the effect of worker sorting from the one caused by sector-specific job characteristics. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884142