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Analyzing the Extent and Influence of Occupational Licensing on the Labor Market
Kleiner, Morris M. - 2011
licensing is associated with about 18 percent higher wages, but the effect of governmental certification on pay is much smaller … little association between licensing and the variance of wages, in contrast to unions. Overall, our results show that …
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Wage Determination in the Shadow of the Law : The Case of Works Councilors in Germany
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2021
The German law on co-determination at the plant level (Betriebsverfassungsgesetz) stipulates that works councilors are neither to be financially rewarded nor penalized for their activities. This regulation contrasts with publicized instances of excessive payments. The divergence has sparked a...
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The Impact of Employment Protection on the Industrial Wage Structure
Heywood, John S. - 2018
more need for layoffs and labour flexibility have lower wages in countries where stricter EPL protects workers from layoffs …-2005, particularly for wages of unskilled workers. However, we also find that where workers are well organised, they can take advantage … of EPL to secure higher wages …
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Collective Bargaining Systems and Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Flexibility : The Quest for Appropriate Institutional Forms in Advanced Economies
Addison, John T. - 2021
This paper addresses the design of the machinery of collective bargaining from the perspective of the needs of microeconomic and macroeconomic flexibility. In the former context, greater attention is given over to enterprise flexibility than external adjustment. In the latter context, close...
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Evolution of Teachers' Salaries in Latin America at the Turn of the 20th Century : How Much are They (Under or Over) Paid?
Mizala, Alejandra - 2012
How much are teachers paid in comparison to those in other professions in Latin America? How have these differences evolved at the turn of the 20th century? This paper reports the evolution, between circa 1997 and circa 2007, of teachers´ salaries vis-à-vis workers in other professional and...
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Estimating the Firm's Labor Supply Curve in a 'New Monopsony' Framework : School Teachers in Missouri
Ransom, Michael R. - 2009
In the context of certain dynamic models, it is possible to infer the elasticity of labor supply to the firm from the elasticity of the quit rate with respect to the wage. Using this property, we estimate the average labor supply elasticity to public school districts in Missouri. We take...
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Adjusted State Teacher Salaries and the Decision to Teach
Rickman, Dan S. - 2015
Using the 3-year sample of the American Community Survey (ACS) for 2009 to 2011, we compute public school teacher salaries for comparison across U.S. states. Teacher salaries are adjusted for state differences in teacher characteristics, cost of living, household amenity attractiveness and...
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Teacher Pay and Student Performance : Evidence from the Gambian Hardship Allowance
Pugatch, Todd - 2014
We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school teachers in remote locations, on student performance. A geographic discontinuity in the policy's implementation provides identifying variation. We find no effects of the hardship...
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Teacher Performance Pay in the United States : Incidence and Adult Outcomes
Bond, Timothy - 2018
higher wages as adults. The positive effect is concentrated in grades 1-3 and on programs that targeted schools with a higher …
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Deregulating Teacher Labor Markets
Burgess, Simon M. - 2019
A common feature of public sector labor markets is the use of pay scales. This paper examines how the removal of pay scales impacts productivity, by exploiting a reform that compelled all schools in England to replace pay scales with school-designed performance related pay schemes. We find that...
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