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Interactions between Private and Public Sector Wages
Afonso, António - 2010
We examine the interactions between public and private sector wages per employee in OECD countries. The growth of … public sector wages and of public sector employment positively affects the growth of private sector wages. Moreover, total … private sector wages. We then set up a dynamic labour market equilibrium model with two sectors, search and matching frictions …
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Public Sector Pay and Corruption : Measuring Bribery from Micro Data
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2006
employees. In the case of Ukraine, we find that public sector employees receive 24-32% less wages than their private sector …
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Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials by Type of Contract : Evidence from Spain
Ramos, Raul - 2014
The article examines public-private sector wage differentials in Spain using microdata from the Structure of Earnings Survey (Encuesta de Estructura Salarial). When applying various decomposition techniques, we find that it is important to distinguish by gender and type of contract. Our results...
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The Effect of Public Wages on Corporate Compensation in Hungary
Telegdy, Almos - 2013
I identify wage spillovers from the public to the corporate sector with the help of a large and sudden public sector wage increase, which raised real compensation by 40 percent in two years, changing the average public wage premium from minus 10 to plus 12 percent. Using a dataset covering about...
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Differential Patterns between Private and Public Sector Wages in Spain
de León, Alba; Dolado, Juan Jose - 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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Trends in Quality-Adjusted Skill Premia in the United States, 1960-2000
Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 2010
This paper presents new evidence that increases in college enrollment lead to a decline in the average quality of college graduates between 1960 and 2000, resulting in a decrease of 6 percentage points in the college premium. We show that although a standard demand and supply framework can...
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The Returns to Language Skills in the US Labor Market
Isphording, Ingo E. - 2013
important channel through which language skills affect wages of child migrants. Although the returns of adult migrants do not …
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The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and Implications for the Structure of Wages
Maestas, Nicole - 2018
This paper documents variation in working conditions among workers in the United States, presents new estimates of how workers value these conditions, and assesses the impact of working conditions on estimates of the wage structure and inequality. We use evidence from a series of stated...
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Globalization and Wage Convergence : Mexico and the United States
Gandolfi, Davide - 2014
Neoclassical trade theory suggests that factor price convergence should follow increased commercial integration. Rising commercial integration and foreign direct investment followed the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Mexico. This paper evaluates the degree...
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Trends in the Returns to Social Assimilation : Earnings Premiums Among U.S. Immigrants that Marry Natives
Furtado, Delia - 2014
Previous studies show that immigrants married to natives earn higher wages than immigrants married to other immigrants …
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