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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 …-reported compensation in the public sector. Using the conditions of labor market equilibrium, we develop an aggregate measure of bribery and …
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Income Tax Flattening : Does it Help to Reduce the Shadow Economy?
Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2009
This paper examines the effect of global transition to simpler, flatter income tax systems on the size of the shadow …
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Unemployment in East and West Europe
Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
In this paper, we use 1991-2005 panel data on the unemployed, vacancies, inflow intounemployment, and outflow from unemployment in five former communist economies and inthe western part of Germany (a benchmark western economy) to examine the evolution ofunemployment together with that of inflows...
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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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Temporary Help Work : Compensating Differentials and Multiple Job-Holding
Hamersma, Sarah - 2012
importance in balancing cyclical fluctuations in labor demand. Does THS employment provide some benefits to disadvantaged workers …
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The Wage Curve : An Entry Written for the New Palgrave, 2nd Edition
Blanchflower, David G. - 2006
This paper summarizes evidence for the existence of a wage curve - a downward-sloping relationship between the level of pay and the local unemployment rate - in modern micro data. At the time of writing, the curve has been found in 40 nations. Its elasticity is approximately -0.1
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The Effect of Search Frictions on Wages
van den Berg, Gerard J.; van Vuuren, Aico - 2021
. We perform tests with matched worker-firm data. The worker data are informative on individual wages and labor market … difference between labor productivity and wages in a market depends on the degree of frictions and other determinants. We correct …Labor market theories allowing for search frictions make marked predictions on the effect of the degree of frictions on …
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Country of Origin and Immigrant Earnings, 1960-2000 : A Human Capital Investment Perspective
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2014
Using microdata from the 1960-2000 decennial censuses, this paper explores how large initial differences in immigrant earnings by country of origin change with duration in the United States. One analysis reveals that country of origin adds less to the explanation of earnings, among working-age...
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Earnings Over the Life Cycle : The Mincer Earnings Function and its Applications
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2021
growth is smaller for those anticipating intermittent labor force participation; why males earn more than females; why whites … the young; and why numerous other labor market phenomena occur. This paper surveys the answers to these and other …
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Training, Human Capital, and Gender Gaps in Entrepreneurial Performance
Brixiova, Zuzana - 2019
In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, policymakers have been increasingly striving to support female entrepreneurship as a possible growth driver. This paper contributes to reconciling mixed findings in the literature on the effectiveness of entrepreneurial training with an analysis...
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