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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 …
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Fiscal implications of government wage bill spending
Dybczak, Kamil; Garcia-Escribano, Mercedes - 2019
This paper discusses the short- and medium-term fiscal implications of government wage bill spending. Working with a sample of 137 advanced, emerging and low-income countries, we use a panel VAR approach to identify differences in the dynamic behavior of revenues, nonwage expenditures, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001503
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Government wage bill management and civil service reform in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union
Mitchell, Wayne; James, Ronald; Wickham, Ann Marie - 2019
In this study, we assess the size of the government wage bill and employment in the member countries of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union and their implications for fiscal sustainability and the adequacy of public service delivery. Over the period 2005 to 2015 their wage bill (as a percentage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012021916
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The Quality of Governance : Second-Generation Civil Service Reform in Africa
International Monetary Fund - 1998
in response to compression of wages. The paper develops a simple theoretical framework to discuss these issues and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401612
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Quality of Government and Living Standards : Adjusting for the Efficiency of Public Spending
Grigoli, Francesco - 2012
It is generally acknowledged that the government’s output is difficult to define and its value is hard to measure. The practical solution, adopted by national accounts systems, is to equate output to input costs. However, several studies estimate significant inefficiencies in government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395682
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Rightsizing Brazil's public-sector wage bill
Karpowicz, Izabela; Soto, Mauricio - 2018
wage, and align public sector compensation to private wages in low-skilled professions …
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Public employment and compensation reform during times of fiscal consolidation
Forni, Lorenzo; Novta, Natalija - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010441931
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Employment and Wages in the Public Sector : A Cross-Country Study
International Monetary Fund - 1995
We study the determinants of employment and wages in the public sector, using a new set of panel data for 34 LDCs and … countries and private employment for OECD countries). Certain measures of government wages are positively associated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014398143
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Public Employment and Compensation Reform During Times of Fiscal Consolidation
Forni, Lorenzo - 2014
This paper compiles and compares recent and past measures introduced to contain the public wage bill in a number of emerging and advanced economies to assess their effectiveness in bringing down expenditure in a sustained way. In the aftermath of the Great Recession a number of countries have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014411685
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The Impact of Trade Priceson Employment and Wages in the United States
Hakura, Dalia - 1997
This paper investigates the sensitivity of sectoral employment and wages in the United States to changes in foreign … and wage levels. This paper estimates the impact of changes in both import and export prices on employment and wages in … most sectors, changes in trade prices do not have significant effects on employment and wages, although they generally have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401271