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Most of the existing evidence on the effectiveness of family leave policies comes from studies focusing on their impacts on affected families - that is, mothers, fathers, and their children - without a clear understanding of the costs and effects on firms and coworkers. We use data from Denmark...
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study the labour market effects of public sector employment and wages. Public sector wages plays an important role in … the optimal policy can increase the volatility of unemployment significantly. Public sector wage and employment shocks … it. Hiring more people can increase or decrease the unemployment rate. All shocks raise the wage and crowd out employment …
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probabilities between private and public employment, unemployment and inactivity. We examine the stocks and flows by gender, age and … unemployment rate. Public-sector employment contributes 20 percent to fluctuations in the unemployment rate in the UK, 15 percent …
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The size of the public sector in terms of employment and compensation has a strong life-cycle dimension. We establish a … important forms of compensation to public-sector workers. Harmonizing the characteristics of public employment with those of the …
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We set up a search and matching model with a private and a public sector to understand the effects of employment and … small positive impact on educational composition and larger negative impact on the private employment of skilled workers, if … and on skilled private employment. We highlight the usefulness of the model for policymakers by calculating the value of …
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address sector of employment selection issue for both males and females. We find that there is very little evidence of sample …
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sector employment are heterogeneous, with comparatively larger impact at the lower end of the wage distribution than at other …
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personality traits predict sorting into public and private sector employment among prime working-age individuals. To gain deeper … entry of individuals with high levels of orderliness into public sector employment. High sociability is also financially …
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' effect are unionisation, industry of employment and education, while those associated with the 'price' effect are education …
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Are public sector jobs better than private sector jobs? To answer this question, this paper investigates observed differences in job satisfaction between public- and private-sector workers and disentangles the effect of worker sorting from the one caused by sector-specific job characteristics. A...
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