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The paper explores the effect of economic transition on public-private sector pay differential across the pay distribution in Hungary from 1992 until 2003. Over the time period covered by the analysis the public sector had witnessed large-scale privatisations and restructuring through a number...
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We provide a detailed descriptive analysis of the long-term effects of the 50 percent public sector wage increase initiated by the government in 2002 in order to improve the relative situation of public sector workers. The aim of this policy was to attract high quality workers to the public...
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The paper looks at the effect of exceptionally large fluctuations in the level of public sector pay on the number and quality of workers moving from the private to the public sector in Hungary. Special emphasis is put on the unique pay rises taking place before and after the 2002 elections. The...
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We provide a detailed descriptive analysis of the long-term effects of the 50 percent public sector wage increase initiated by the government in 2002 in order to improve the relative situation of public sector workers. The aim of this policy was to attract high quality workers to the public...
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, Mathematics and Science performance. -- Education ; student test scores ; enrolment age ; identification …
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The share of female workers is significantly higher i the public than the private sector. This could be due to several reasons: different preferences towards job characteristics, or perhaps to lower discrimination against women in the public sector due to strict wage grids and hiring and...
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biases due to endogeneity of independent variables (especially the education variable) and the simultaneity of wages and … working time. The results show that university education yields considerable wage premium as compared to college education …, and that the return to education would be significantly underestimated by ols. The estimates confirm that foreign …
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