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Why Is the Public Sector More Labor-Intensive? : A Distortionary Tax Argument
Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - 2004
Government-run entities are often more labor-intensive than private companies, even with identical production technologies. This need not imply slack in the public sector, but may be a rational response to its wage tax advantage over private firms. A tax-favored treatment of public production...
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Total reward in the UK in the public and private sectors
Danzer, Alexander M.; Dolton, Peter J. - 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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Benchmarking regions: Estimating the counterfactual distribution of labor market outcomes
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Furdas, Marina - 2012
This paper develops and implements a new benchmarking approach for labor market regions. Based on panel data for regions, we use nonparametric matching techniques to account for observed labor market characteristics and for spatial proximity. As the benchmark, we estimate the counterfactual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282286
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Is the Contracting-Out of Intensive Placement Services More Effective than Provision by the PES? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Krug, Gerhard; Stephan, Gesine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
There is a longstanding debate on the advantages of quasi-markets for placement services compared to their public deliverance. During 2009, the German Public Employment Service (PES) implemented a randomized field experiment to investigate if intensive services for hard-to-place unemployed...
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The Rise of Domestic Outsourcing and the Evolution of the German Wage Structure
Goldschmidt, Deborah; Schmieder, Johannes F. - 2015
why firms choose to contract out these services. Finally, we tie the increase in outsourcing activity to broader changes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307407
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Is the Contracting-Out of Intensive Placement Services More Effective than Provision by the PES? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Krug, Gerhard; Stephan, Gesine - 2013
There is a longstanding debate on the advantages of quasi-markets for placement services compared to their public deliverance. During 2009, the German Public Employment Service (PES) implemented a randomized field experiment to investigate if intensive services for hard-to-place unemployed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319496
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Curbing cream-skimming: evidence on enrolment incentives
Courty, Pascal; Kim, Do Han; Marschke, Gerald - 2008
Can enrolment incentives reduce the incidence of cream-skimming in the delivery of public sector services (e.g. education, health, job training)? In the context of a large government job training program, we investigate whether the use of enrolment incentives that set different 'shadow prices'...
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Strive to be First or Avoid Being Last: An Experiment on Relative Performance Incentives
Dutcher, E. Glenn; Balafoutas, Loukas; Lindner, Florian; … - 2015
tournament contract incorporating both incentives at the top and at the bottom induces the highest effort, especially in larger …
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Reputations, relationships and the enforcement of incomplete contracts
MacLeod, W. Bentley - 2006
incomplete contract. It is shown that the efficiency of these solutions is very sensitive to the characteristics of the good or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267674
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Network Effects on Labor Contracts of Internal Migrants in China: A Spatial Autoregressive Model
Baltagi, Badi H.; Deng, Ying; Ma, Xiangjun - 2017
This paper studies the fact that 37 percent of the internal migrants in China do not sign a labor contract with their … employers, as revealed in a nationwide survey. These contract-free jobs pay lower hourly wages, require longer weekly work hours … contracts in the co-villager network increases the probability that a migrant accepts a contract-free job. We provide three …
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