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Public, Private or Both? Analysing Factors Influencing the Labour Supply of Medical Specialists
Cheng, Terence Chai - 2013
This paper investigates the factors influencing the allocation of time between public and private sectors by medical specialists. A discrete choice structural labour supply model is estimated, where specialists choose from a set of job packages that are characterised by the number of working...
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A Distributional Analysis of the Public-Private Wage Differential in India
Azam, Mehtabul - 2010
We investigate the public-private wage differential in India using nationally representative micro data. While the existing literature focuses on average wage differential, we study the differences in the wage distributions. The raw wage differential between public and private sector is positive...
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Teachers' Salaries in Latin America : How Much are They (Under or Over) Paid?
Mizala, Alejandra - 2011
This paper documents the extent to which teachers are underpaid vis-à-vis workers in other professional and technical occupations in Latin America circa 2007. These labor earnings differences, attributed to observable socio-demographic and job characteristics, are assessed using a matching...
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Total Reward in the UK in the Public and Private Sectors
Danzer, Alexander M. - 2011
Recent controversy has surrounded the relative value of public and private sector remuneration. We define a comprehensive measure of Total Reward (TR) which includes not just pay, but pensions and other 'benefits in kind', evaluate it as the present value of the sum of all these payments over...
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Public Sector Pay and Corruption : Measuring Bribery from Micro Data
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 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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Differences in Positions Along a Hierarchy : Counterfactuals Based on an Assignment Model
Gobillon, Laurent - 2017
We propose an assignment model in which positions along a hierarchy are attributed to individuals depending on their characteristics. Our theoretical framework can be used to study differences in assignment and outcomes across groups and we show how it can motivate decomposition and...
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Managerial Talent, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Public Management
Delfgaauw, Josse - 2010
The quality of public management is a recurrent concern in many countries. Calls to attract the economyﾒ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 Role of Parental Income Over the Life Cycle : A Comparison of Sweden and the UK
Bjorklund, Anders - 2012
the UK than in Sweden. We use similar data sets for the two countries to explore whether these cross-national differences … association between parental income and these outcomes, and the associations are stronger in the UK than in Sweden.Therefore, we … weight and height are too weak to account for hardly any fraction of the UK-Sweden difference in intergenerational income …
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The Labour Market Integration of Refugee and Family Reunion Immigrants : A Comparison of Outcomes in Canada and Sweden
Bevelander, Pieter - 2012
Canada and Sweden using two national level sources of data. The Canadian Immigration Database (IMDB) is a file that links the … groups are quite similar in the two host countries, although earnings are higher in Canada than in Sweden …
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Disparities in Social Assistance Receipt between Immigrants and Natives in Sweden
Gustafsson, Björn - 2014
Social assistance receipt among immigrants in relation to receipt among natives in Sweden is investigated. A background … interpreted. Most out-payment for social assistance in Sweden refers to foreign born persons although the category makes up 14 …
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