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Rightsizing Brazil's public-sector wage bill
Karpowicz, Izabela; Soto, Mauricio - 2018
Brazil's public-sector wage bill is comparatively high. It grows inertially and competes with other spending … wage, and align public sector compensation to private wages in low-skilled professions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932408
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Institutions, Informality, and Wage Flexibility : Evidence From Brazil
Carvalho Filho, Irineu E. - 2012
institutional changes introduced by the 1988 Constitution lowered the sensitivity of real wages to changes in labor market slack and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396829
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The labor market performance of immigrants in Germany
Beyer, Robert - 2016
The paper uses a large survey (GSOEP) to analyze the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It finds that new immigrant workers earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for immigrants from advanced countries,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436800
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Are low-skill women being left behind? : labor market evidence from the UK
Dabla-Norris, Era; Pizzinelli, Carlo; Rappaport, Jay - 2022
, period, and cohort effects for the likelihood of employment in different occupations and the wages earned therein over 2001 … relative to high-paying abstract jobs. However, cohort effects also underpin falling wages for post-1980 cohorts across all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170024
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The agricultural exodus in the Philippines : are wage differentials driving the process?
Cerutti, Eugenio M.; Li, Yiliang - 2021
Lagging labor reallocations outside agriculture amid sustained low agricultural productivity have been a key feature in the Philippines over the past 15 years. An analysis of the labor adjustments in and out of agriculture shows that a variety of factors have influenced this process. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012796816
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What's up with U.S. wage growth and job mobility?
Danninger, Stephan - 2016
-15 Current Population Survey, I find that the drawn-out cyclical labor market repair-likely owing to low entry wages of new … workers-slowed down real wage growth. There are, however, also signs of structural changes in the labor market affecting wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011711569
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Government Employment and Wages and Labor Market Performance
Kontolemis G., Zenon - 1999
, an increase in government wages or benefits reduces private sector employment, and government employment is not an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403794
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The Response of Wages and Labor Supply Movements to Employment Shocks Across Europe and the United States
Thomas, Alun H. - 1994
This paper assesses the responsiveness of wages and labor force movements to employment shocks across British and U ….S. regions and across Europe using a multivariate vector autoregression technique. The paper finds inflexible real wages in all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014398207
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The short-term impact of COVID-19 on labor markets, poverty and inequality in Brazil
Al Masri, Diala; Flamini, Valentina; Toscani, Frederik - 2021
We document the short-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Brazilian labor market focusing on employment, wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518867
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Social programs and formal employment : evidence from the Brazilian Bolsa Família Program
Fruttero, Anna; Leichsenring, Alexandre Ribeiro; Paiva, … - 2020
eligibility rule of the Bolsa Familia program in Brazil, one of the oldest and largest conditional cash transfers in the world, to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252007