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

Danzer, Natalia - 2013

one caused by sector-specific job characteristics. A natural experiment - the massive privatization process in post …-Soviet countries - allows correcting potential self-selection bias. Industry-specific privatization probabilities are assigned to …

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Contracting out mandatory counselling and training for long-term unemployed : private for-profit or non-profit, or keep it public?

Cockx, Bart; Baert, Stijn - 2015

This study evaluates the effectiveness of contracting out mandatory publicly provided counselling and training for long-term unemployed in Flanders (Belgium) to private for-profit and non-profit organisations (FPOs and NPOs). A multivariate transition model exploits timing-of-events and novel...

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Asset stripping, rule of law and firm survival : the Hoff-Stiglitz model and mass privatization in Montenegro

Koman, Matjaž; Lakičević, Milan; Prašnikar, Janez; … - 2013

-oriented issue of why a large number of efficient firms disappeared during mass privatization in a booming economy of Montenegro …. Econometrically, we present the first study to look at firms that disappeared during a mass privatization transition, improving upon … remaining in samples when estimating the effects of privatization or other ownership changes. We also show that one needs to …

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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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