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"Do public sector workers earn a wage premium in Djibouti and are the returns to education different across the sectors? The authors estimate private and public sector wage earnings using 1996 household survey data, while controlling for selectivity using Heckman's two stage approach. They find...
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Lao PDR is at a point on its development trajectory where strategic attention to administrative performance is crucial. An efficient and high-performing civil service, with the compensation and human resource management systems to attract and motivate qualified personnel, will be essential to...
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erosion of real wages over time, the change in the structure of salary scales is not accompanied by a similar structural … revision of tasks and efficiency of public sector employees. At the macro-economic level, the overall increase in wages would …
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This report examines the pay-setting arrangements for senior civil servants in three settings: the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Singapore. It concludes that: a robust analytic approach for pay setting seems to be sufficient to maintain some general sense of legitimacy in the process, but...
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members, whereas in civil-law countries, only older members enjoy higher wages. The authors also contrast wage premia with …
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"The authors provide new evidence on the impacts of trade reforms on wages and wage inequality in developing countries … wages and wage inequality. After setting up unusual historical data sets of trends in tariffs, trends in wages, and trends …) has reduced wages, and (2) has increased wage inequality. "--World Bank web site …
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differentials and compare them with estimated relative wages. The analysis provides evidence on productivity and nonproductivity …-based determinations of wages. Special emphasis is given to the effects of human capital variables, such as education, experience, and … training on wages and productivity differentials. Higher education yields higher productivity. However, highly educated workers …
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rather heterogeneous impact pattern of individual characteristics across the wage distribution on monthly wages. The author …'s findings reveal that education is key to earning higher wages, and that workers in more dispersed rural areas earn less than …
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"Latvia has recorded sustained GDP and productivity growth since 1997. Yet unemployment rates, despite gradual decrease, have remained high. Hazans explores the mysteries of unemployment in Latvia. He analyzes labor flows between employment, unemployment, and nonparticipation and finds the...
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