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Public sector pay and corruption: measuring bribery from micro data
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2006
employees. In the case of Ukraine, we find that public sector employees receive 24-32% less wages than their private sector … find that the lower bound estimate of the extent of bribery in Ukraine is between 460 mln and 580 mln U.S. dollars (0 ….9-1.2% of Ukraine's GDP in 2003). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267666
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Public Sector Pay and Corruption: Measuring Bribery from Micro Data
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Peter, Klara Sabirianova - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
employees. In the case of Ukraine, we find that public sector employees receive 24-32% less wages than their private sector … find that the lower bound estimate of the extent of bribery in Ukraine is between 460 mln and 580 mln U.S. dollars (0 ….9-1.2% of Ukraine’s GDP in 2003). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703452
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Returns to Human Capital under the Communist Wage Grid and During the Transition to a Market Economy
Terrell, Katherine; Svejnar, Jan; Münich, Daniel - 2000
Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275906
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Returns to Human Capital under the Communist Wage Grid and During the Transition to a Market Economy
Munich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763493
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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 economy. By offering a new estimation framework, the paper revives the traditional electricity consumption approach to measuring the shadow economy. It overcomes the limitations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269186
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Income Tax Flattening: Does It Help to Reduce the Shadow Economy?
Sabirianova Peter, Klara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper examines the effect of global transition to simpler, flatter income tax systems on the size of the shadow economy. By offering a new estimation framework, the paper revives the traditional electricity consumption approach to measuring the shadow economy. It overcomes the limitations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005004575
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Perceived Income, Promotion and Incentive Effects
Epstein, Gil S.; Ward, Melanie E. - 2002
This paper examines the disincentive effects of perceived underpayment on individuals? exerted effort and promotion. To this end we develop a theoretical framework and obtain empirical evidence by analysing British academia data. We find that, tenured academics will tend to invest less effort in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262812
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Labor Market Segmentation and the Earnings of German Guestworkers
Constant, Amelie F.; Massey, Douglas S. - 2003
separate effects of occupational segmentation and discrimination in the allocation of occupations and wages we conceptualize …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272305
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The Effect of Search Frictions on Wages
van den Berg, Gerard J.; van Vuuren, Aico - 2003
wages. Often, the effect is predicted to be negative. Despite the popularity of these theories, this has never been tested …. 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261542
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Temporary help work: Compensating differentials and multiple job-holding
Hamersma, Sarah; Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Mueser, Peter R. - 2012
Temporary Help Services (THS) employment has been growing in size, particularly among disadvantaged workers, and in importance in balancing cyclical fluctuations in labor demand. Does THS employment provide some benefits to disadvantaged workers, or divert them from better jobs? We investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287670