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Wages, Pensions, and Public-Private Sector Compensation Differentials for Older Workers
Bewerunge, Philipp - 2013
compensation than private sector workers, ceteris paribus. With respect to hourly remuneration (wages plus employer contributions … taking jobs in the public sector, either with respect to wages or pension wealth …
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An Analysis of Public and Private Sector Wages Allowing for Endogenous Choices of Both Government and Union Status
Gyourko, Joseph - 1986
. Consistent wage equation estimates are then derived using a generalization of the now familiar two-step estimation procedure … "comparability" process determining their wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477154
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Wages in the Federal and Private Sectors
Venti, Steven F. - 1985
This study addresses the legal principle of "comparability" that ties federal sector wages to wages in the private … the same wages in each sector. Estimates based on data from the 1982 CPS indicate males may have a slight wage advantage …-minimizing federal employer would pay wages no higher than necessary to attract employees and eliminate queues for federal jobs. If the …
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Handedness and Earnings
Ruebeck, Christopher S. - 2006
We examine whether handedness is related to performance in the labor market and, in particular, earnings. We find a significant wage effect for left-handed men with high levels of education. This positive wage effect is strongest among those who have lower than average earnings relative to those...
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Secrets in Asset Purchases : Estimating the Unofficial Incomes of Officials
Deng, Yongheng; Wei, Shang-jin; Wu, Jing; Zhang, Rongjie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We estimate the size of the likely unofficial income of a household with a government official by the difference between the income that would be necessary to explain their observed home purchase behavior and the official income. Using unique and comprehensive administrative records on the House...
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Unionism Comes to the Public Sector
Freeman, Richard B. - 1984
to shift demand curves rather than to raise wages, as is the case in the private sector. It reviews the public sector … effects of public sector unions on wages are likely to have been underestimated; (3) public sector unions have a somewhat …
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Who Pays for Public Employee Health Costs?
Clemens, Jeffrey - 2013
through reductions in wages and salaries. Strong teachers' unions were associated with relatively strong linkages between …
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The Personnel Economics of the State
Finan, Frederico - 2015
Governments play a central role in facilitating economic development. Yet while economists have long emphasized the importance of government quality, historically they have paid less attention to the internal workings of the state and the individuals who provide the public services. This paper...
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Would Reducing Tenure Probabilities Increase Faculty Salaries?
Ehrenberg, Ronald G. - 1995
The simplest competitive labor market model asserts that if tenure is a desirable job characteristic for professors, they should be willing to pay for it by accepting lower salaries. Conversely, if an institution unilaterally reduces the probability that its assistant professors receive tenure,...
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Salary or Benefits?
Oyer, Paul - 2005
Employer-provided benefits are a large and growing share of compensation costs. In this paper, I consider three factors that can affect the value created by employer-sponsored benefits. First, firms have a comparative advantage (for example, due to scale economies or tax treatment) in purchasing...
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