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Accounting for China's growth
Brandt, Loren; Zhu, Xiaodong - 2010
role of rising rates of investment. Because labor reallocation across sectors, TFP growth at the sector level and … investment are all inter-related, simple growth decompositions that are often used in the literature are not appropriate for … continues to absorb more than half of all fixed investment. If capital had been allocated efficiently, China could have achieved …
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Do female managers help to lower within-firm gender pay gaps? : public institutions vs. private enterprises
Magda, Iga; Cukrowska-Torzewska, Ewa - 2018
separately at the private and public sector. Using a large linked employer-employee dataset for Poland and a non-parametric and …
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Public versus private sector wage gap in Egypt : evidence from quantile regression on panel data
Tansel, Aysıt; Keskin, Halil Ibrahim; Ozdemir, Zeynel … - 2018
This paper considers the public and private sector wage earners in Egypt and examines their wage distribution during 1998-2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We estimate the public-private sector wage gap with Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at different quantiles of the...
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Public-private sector wage differentials in Australia
Mahuteau, Stéphane; Mavromaras, Kostas G.; Richardson, Sue - 2017
This paper examines wage differentials between public sector and private sector workers in Australia. After controlling for observed characteristics and individual fixed effects, we show that on average workers in the public sector earn about 5.1% percent more hourly wages than those in the...
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Personality and public sector employment
Maczulskij, Terhi; Viinikainen, Jutta - 2021
Using a representative survey combined with register data on long-term labour market outcomes, this paper examines how personality traits predict sorting into public and private sector employment among prime working-age individuals. To gain deeper insights into the dynamic dimensions of the...
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Differential patterns between private and public sector wages in Spain
León, Alba Couceiro de; Dolado, Juan J. - 2022
This paper studies the wage differentials between the public and private sectors in Spain, as well as its distribution across different educational levels and by gender. To do so, the well-known Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition of mincerian wage regressions is applied for both sectors, breaking down...
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Reforms, entry and productivity : some evidence from the Indian manufacturing sector
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar (contributor);  … - 2006
It is now stylized that, while the impact of ownership on firm productivity is unclear, product market competition can be expected to have a positive impact on productivity, thereby making entry (or contestability of markets) desirable. Traditional research in the context of entry has explored...
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Public sector pay and corruption : measuring bribery from micro data
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy (contributor);  … - 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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Are public sector workers underpaid in Russia? : estimating the public-private wage gap
Gimpelʹson, Vladimir E. (contributor);  … - 2009
The paper starts with discussing institutional framework for public sector wage setting in Russia. Given that individual choice of the sector is endogenous to wages, the authors recommend alternative econometric techniques for the public-private wage gap estimation. Applying switching regression...
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Is the wage curve formal or informal? : evidence for Colombia
Ramos, Raúl; Duque, Juan C.; Suriñach Caralt, Jordi - 2009
The objective of this paper is to analyse the existence or not of a wage curve in Colombia, paying special attention to the differences between formal and informal workers, an issue that has been systematically ignored in the wage curve literature. The obtained results using microdata from the...
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