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Public Sector Pay and Corruption: Measuring Bribery from Micro Data
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Peter, Klara Sabirianova - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
employees. In the case of Ukraine, we find that public sector employees receive 24-32% less wages than their private sector … find that the lower bound estimate of the extent of bribery in Ukraine is between 460 mln and 580 mln U.S. dollars (0 ….9-1.2% of Ukraine’s GDP in 2003). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703452
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Returns to Human Capital under the Communist Wage Grid and During the Transition to a Market Economy
Munich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763493
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Income Tax Flattening: Does It Help to Reduce the Shadow Economy?
Sabirianova Peter, Klara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper examines the effect of global transition to simpler, flatter income tax systems on the size of the shadow economy. By offering a new estimation framework, the paper revives the traditional electricity consumption approach to measuring the shadow economy. It overcomes the limitations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005004575
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Temporary Help Work: Compensating Differentials and Multiple Job-Holding
Hamersma, Sarah; Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Mueser, Peter R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Temporary Help Services (THS) employment has been growing in size, particularly among disadvantaged workers, and in importance in balancing cyclical fluctuations in labor demand. Does THS employment provide some benefits to disadvantaged workers, or divert them from better jobs? We investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570792
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Myth and Reality of Flat Tax Reform: Micro Estimates of Tax Evasion Response and Welfare Effects in Russia
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge; Peter, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Using micro-level data, we examine the effects of Russia’s 2001 flat rate income tax reform on consumption, income, and tax evasion. We use the gap between household expenditures and reported earnings as a proxy for tax evasion with data from a household panel for 1998- 2004. Utilizing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703531
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Unemployment in East and West Europe
Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
evolution of unemployment together with that of inflows into unemployment and vacancies. The comparison of the transition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822900
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Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials by Type of Contract: Evidence from Spain
Ramos, Raul; Sanromá, Esteban; Simón, Hipólito - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The article examines public-private sector wage differentials in Spain using microdata from the Structure of Earnings Survey (Encuesta de Estructura Salarial). When applying various decomposition techniques, we find that it is important to distinguish by gender and type of contract. Our results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884225
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Labour Demand Research: Towards a Better Match between Better Theory and Better Data
Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Varejão, José - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
At first blush, most advances in labour demand were achieved by the late 1980s. Since then progress might appear to have stalled. We argue to the contrary that significant progress has been made in understanding labour market frictions and imperfections, and in modelling search behaviour and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959736
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Minimum Wage Increases Under Straightened Circumstances
Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Do apparently large minimum wage increases in an environment of recession produce clearer evidence of disemployment effects than is typically observed in the new minimum wage literature? This paper augments the sparse literature on the most recent increases in the U.S. minimum wage, using three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325439
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The Effect of Search Frictions on Wages
den Berg, Gerard J. van; van Vuuren, Aico - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
wages. Often, the effect is predicted to be negative. Despite the popularity of these theories, this has never been tested …. We perform tests with matched worker-firm data. The worker data are informative on individual wages and labor market … difference between labor productivity and wages in a market depends on the degree of frictions and other determinants. We correct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703143