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Do Left-Wing Governments Decrease Wage Inequality Among Civil Servants? Empirical Evidence from the German States

Kauder, Björn; Krause, Manuela; Potrafke, Niklas - 2021

We investigate whether left-wing governments decrease wage inequality among civil servants. The data is based on salaries of civil servants in the German states. Since a reform in 2006, German state governments are allowed to design salaries of civil servants. We employ encompassing data for pay...

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Estimating Labor Market Slack, U.S. 1994-2019

Komlos, John - 2019

U3, the official unemployment rate, is an inadequate gauge of labor-market slack and the extent to which it misinforms varies substantially over the business cycle. The U6 unemployment rate is usually about 4 percentage points above U3. However, during the Great Recession it exceeded U3 by 7...

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Pennies from Haven : Wages and Profit Shifting

Alstadsæter, Annette; Bjørkheim, Julie Brun; Davies, … - 2022

inequality. Using rich matched employer-employee data from Norway, we find that profit-shifting firms pay higher wages …. CEOs particularly gain, with their wages rising nearly 10%. These results thus suggest that profit shifting by …-of-the-envelope calculations suggest these higher wages would generate additional income tax revenues which would offset around 3% of the fall in …

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Does Public Sector Outsourcing Decrease Public Employment? Empirical Evidence from OECD Countries

Potrafke, Niklas - 2019

I examine the extent to which public sector outsourcing relates to public employment in OECD countries. I use new panel data on public sector outsourcing. The sample includes 26 countries over the period 2009-2015. Contrary to common expectations, the results do not suggest that public sector...

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Labor Market Hardships and Preferences for Public Sector Employment and Employers : Evidence from Russia

Jin, Olivia; Pyle, William - 2021

A growing literature connects labor market hardships to stronger preferences for government welfare and redistribution programs. Potential preference shifts with respect to other types of state involvement in the economy, however, have gone unexplored. We draw on both longitudinal and...

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On the Impact of Risky Private and Public Returns in the Private Provision of Public Goods - the Case of Social Investments

Freundt, Jana - 2019

We use a laboratory experiment to identify the impact of risk in the private and public dimensions of social investments. In variants of a public good game, we separate the return a subject’s investment generates for herself vs. the return to others. We find a detrimental effect of risk on...

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Financial Policymaking after Crises : Public vs. Private Interests

Saka, Orkun; Ji, Yuemei; De Grauwe, Paul - 2021

We first present a simple model of post-crisis policymaking driven by both public and private interests. Using a novel dataset covering 94 countries between 1973 and 2015, we then establish that financial crises can lead to government interventions in financial markets. Consistent with a public...

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Arm's Length Provision of Public Services

Bennedsen, Morten; Schultz, Christian - 2021

We analyze the economic consequences of strategic delegation of the right to decide between public or private provision of a governmental service and/or the authority to negotiate and renegotiate with the chosen service provider. Our model encompasses both bureaucratic delegation from a...

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Competition and Waiting Times in Hospital Markets

Brekke, Kurt Richard; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - 2021

This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that differ in (geographical) location and, potentially, waiting time, and two types of patients; high-benefit patients who choose between neighbouring hospitals (competitive...

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Prescription Behavior of Physicians in the Public and Private Sector

Jussila, Elina; Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Verho, J - 2023

We analyze prescription behavior of physicians in the public and private sector. We study two major diseases for which an effective, widely accepted low-cost treatment and alternative, more expensive treatments are available. We find that private sector physicians are more likely to prescribe...

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