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Glass Ceiling or Sticky Floor? Exploring the Australian Gender Pay Gap using Quantile Regression and Counterfactual Decomposition Methods

Kee, Hiau Joo - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

Using the HILDA survey, this paper analyses Australian gender wage gaps in both public and private sectors across the wage distribution. Quantile Regression (QR) techniques are used to control for various characteristics at different points of the wage distributions. Counterfactual decomposition...

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Aboriginal Employment and Unemployment : An Overview.

Janankar, P.N.; Kapuscinski, C.A. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1991

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Public Enterprises: A Success Story of Microeconomic Reform?

Forsyth, P. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1992

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Is There a Glass Ceiling over Europe? Exploring the Gender Pay Gap across the Wages Distribution

Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison; Bryan, Mark L. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

Using harmonised data from the European Union Household Panel, we analyse gender pay gaps by sector across the wages distribution for eleven countries. We find that the mean gender pay gap in the raw data typically hides large variations in the gap across the wages distribution. We use quantile...

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Incentives in the Public Sector: Some Preliminary Evidence from a UK Government Agency

Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; Ratto, Marisa; Tominey, Emma - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper evaluates the impact of a team-based incentive scheme piloted in the public sector agency, Jobcentre Plus. The way the scheme has been designed raises many questions for which theory makes predictions. We test these predictions against our data. We find that team size affects the...

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Incentives in the Public Sector: Evidence from a Government Agency

Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; Ratto, Marisa; Tominey, Emma - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot scheme of incentives in a major government agency. The incentive scheme was based on teams and covered quantity and quality targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We...

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Public Sector Pay and Corruption: Measuring Bribery from Micro Data

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This study is the first to provide a systematic measure of bribery using micro-level data on reported earnings, household spending and asset holdings. We use the compensating differential framework and the estimated sectoral gap in reported earnings and expenditures to identify the size of...

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Wage Structure and Public Sector Employment: Sweden versus the United States 1970-2002

Domeij, David; Ljungqvist, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Swedish census data and tax records reveal an astonishing wage compression; the Swedish skill premium fell by more than 30 percent between 1970 and 1990 while the U.S. skill premium, after an initial decline in the 1970s, rose by 8-10 percent. Since then both skill premia have increased by...

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The Democratic Transition

Murtin, Fabrice; Wacziarg, Romain - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Over the last two centuries, many countries experienced regime transitions toward democracy. We document this … democratic transition over a long time horizon. We use historical time series of income, education and democracy levels from 1870 … to 2000 to explore the economic factors associated with rising levels of democracy. We find that primary schooling, and …

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Inequality, Development, and the Stability of Democracy -Lipset and Three Critical Junctures in German History

Jung, Florian; Sunde, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

there exists a distribution of resources such that democracy emerges in equilibrium, but there are distributions of … resources for which democracy is infeasible in equilibrium irrespective of the level of development. The model also delivers … results on the stability of democracy with regard to changes in the economic and demographic environment. The results are …

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