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The Wage Structure and the Sorting of Workers into the Public Sector

Borjas, George - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

This paper uses data from the U.S. Decennial Census and the Current Population Surveys to document the differential shifts that occurred in the wage structures of the public and privatesectors between 1960 and 2000. The wage gap between the typical public sector worker and a comparable private...

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Compensation in the Nonprofit Sector

Ruhm, Christopher; Borkoski, Carey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000

are as follows. First, holding constant individual characteristics, average weekly wages are 11 percent lower in nonprofit …

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The Role of Retiree Health Insurance in the Early Retirement of Public Sector Employees

Slavov, Sita Nataraj; Shoven, John B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Most private sector workers with employer-provided health insurance have a strong incentive to continue working until Medicare eligibility in order to maintain group health coverage. However, most government employees have access to retiree health coverage, which allows them access to group...

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Workplace Heterogeneity and the Rise of West German Wage Inequality

Card, David E.; Heining, Jörg; Kline, Patrick - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

wages results from a combination of rising heterogeneity between workers, rising variability in the wage premiums at …

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Competitive Wages in a Match with Ordered Contracts

Niederle, Muriel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

effects of a centralized match on wages of medical residents. Bulow and Levin (forthcoming) propose a simple model of the NRMP … aggregate wages compared to any competitive outcome. This paper models a feature present in the NRMP, ordered contracts, that … low wage equilibrium of Bulow and Levin is not robust to this feature of the NRMP, and competitive wages are once more an …

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The Effects of a Centralized Clearinghouse on Job Placement, Wages, and Hiring Practices

Niederle, Muriel; Roth, Alvin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

New gastroenterologists participated in a labor market clearinghouse (a "match") from 1986 through the late 1990's … on wages. <br><br>As this became known among gastroenterologists, an opportunity arose to reorganize the market to once … discuss aspects of the experience of the gastroenterology labor market that seem to generalize fairly widely. …

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Myth and Reality of Flat Tax Reform: Micro Estimates of Tax Evasion Response and Welfare Effects in Russia

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge; Peter, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Using micro-level data, we examine the effects of Russia's 2001 flat rate income tax reform on consumption, income, and tax evasion. We use the gap between household expenditures and reported earnings as a proxy for tax evasion with data from a household panel for 1998-2004. Utilizing...

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Post-Unification Wage Growth in East Germany

Hunt, Jennifer - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999

Following monetary union with west Germany in June 1990, the median real monthly wage of prime age east German workers rose by 83% in six years. I use the German Socio-Economic Panel data to investigate the determinants of this wage growth and some of its implications. For the 1990-1991 period I...

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Anticipating Artistic Success (or, How to Beat the Art Market): Lessons from History

Galenson, David W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

The recent history of modern art provides clues as to how important artists can be identified before their work becomes generally known. Advanced art has been dominated by conceptual innovators since the late 1950s, and the importance of formal art education in the training of leading artists...

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Does Science Promote Women? Evidence from Academia 1973-2001

Kahn, Shulamit; Ginther, Donna K. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Many studies have shown that women are under-represented in tenured ranks in the sciences. We evaluate whether gender differences in the likelihood of obtaining a tenure track job, promotion to tenure, and promotion to full professor explain these facts using the 1973-2001 Survey of Doctorate...

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