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The Impact of an Unexpected Wage Cut on Corruption : Evidence from a 'Xeroxed' Exam
Borcan, Oana - 2013
This paper aims to understand how corruption responds to an income loss. We exploit an unexpected 25% wage cut incurred …-stake exam taking place shortly after the wage announcement. To measure corruption we compare changes in exam outcomes from 2009 … induced better exam outcomes in public than in private schools and we attribute this difference to increased corruption by …
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Wage Bargaining and Political Strength in the Public Sector
Falch, Torberg - 2006
This paper analyses the link between political strength and public sector wages using a unique matched individual …, measured in several ways, has a positive effect on wages, while administrative strength, measured by the tenure of the chief …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783324
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The Impact of Public Employment : Evidence from Bonn
Becker, Sascha O. - 2018
private employment through higher wages and house prices, but also generates potential productivity and amenity spillovers. We …
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Minimum Wage Incidence : The Case for Germany
Knabe, Andreas - 2008
distribution than statutory minimum wages. Combining a minimum wage with a wage subsidy, similar to the French minimum wage system …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012769311
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A Collective Household Model of Time Allocation - a Comparison of Native Dutch and Immigrant Households in the Netherlands
Klaveren, Chris van - 2008
Although the number of immigrant households in the Netherlands is substantial, the labor supply choices of this group are usually neglected in empirical studies because these households are usually under-sampled. We use a stratified sample of Turkish, Surinamese/Antillean and Dutch households...
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Wages Anatomy. Labor Supply of Nurses and a Comparison with Physicians
Andreassen, Leif - 2014
We estimate a dynamic discrete choice model of Registered Nurses' labor supply with random terms. A distinguished feature of our model is that random terms are correlated over time and jobs (habit persistence). Past options and not only the past optimal choices matter for the current choices....
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Collective Labor Supply of Native Dutch and Immigrant Households in the Netherlands
Klaveren, Chris van; van Praag, B.M.S; Maassen van den … - 2021
We estimate a collective time allocation model, where Dutch, Surinamese/Antillean and Turkish households behave as if both spouses maximize a household utility function. We assume that paid labor and housework are the endogenous choice variables and furthermore consider household production....
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Sustainable Social Spending in a Greying Economy with Stagnant Public Services : Baumol's Cost Disease Revisited
van der Ploeg, Rick - 2021
Baumol's cost disease states that relatively high productivity growth in manufacturing induces a steady increase in the relative price of human services. If demand for these services is inelastic or manufactured goods are necessities, the budget share of these services inexorably rises over time...
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Public Sector Employees : Risk Averse and Altruistic?
Buurman, Margaretha - 2012
We assess whether public sector employees have a stronger inclination to serve others and are more risk averse than employees in the private sector. A unique feature of our study is that we use revealed rather than stated preferences data. Respondents of a large-scale survey were offered a...
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Retiree Health Insurance for Public School Employees : Does it Affect Retirement?
Fitzpatrick, Maria Donovan - 2013
Despite the widespread provision of retiree health insurance for public sector workers, little attention has been paid to its effects on employee retirement. This is in contrast to the large literature on health-insurance-induced “job-lock” in the private sector. I use the introduction of...
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