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Managerial talent, motivation, and self-selection into public management

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J. - 2010

The quality of public management is a recurrent concern in many countries. Calls to attract the economy’s best and brightest managers to the public sector abound. This paper studies self-selection into managerial positions in the public and private sector, using a model of a perfectly...

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The lifetime earnings premium in the public sector : the view from Europe

Dickson, Matt; Postel-Vinay, Fabien; Turon, Hélène - 2014

In a context of widespread concern about budget deficits, it is important to assess whether public sector pay is in line with the private sector. Our paper proposes an estimation of differences in lifetime values of employment between public and private sectors for five European countries. We...

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Immigration, human capital formation and endogenous economic growth

Ehrlich, Isaac; Kim, Jinyoung - 2015

Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill … capital, population, income growth and distribution, and migration trends are endogenous. We derive new insights about the … impact of migration on long-term income growth and distribution, and the net benefits to natives in both destination 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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Public-sector employment in an equilibrium search and matching model

Albrecht, James W.; Robayo-Abril, Monica; Vroman, Susan B. - 2017

We extend the Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides model of equilibrium unemployment to incorporate public-sector employment. We calibrate our model to Colombian data and analyze the effects of public-sector wage and employment policy on the unemployment rate, on the division of employment between the...

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A detailed decomposition analysis of the public-private sector wage gap in South Africa

Kwenda-Magejo, Prudence; Benhura, Miracle - 2015

The present study examines the public-private sector wage gap in South Africa using individual cross section data for 2000-7. Results from unconditional quantile regressions and generalised Oaxaca-Blinder type decompositions show that the wage gap is inverted-U shaped across the wage...

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Job satisfaction and self-selection into the public or private sector : evidence from a natural experiment

Danzer, Natalia - 2013

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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