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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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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
the recent anti-corruption campaign. An analysis of a separate cross-city dataset corroborates the key conclusion …
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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
"comparability" process determining their wages …
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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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Politics At Work
Colonnelli, Emanuele; Pinho Neto, Valdemar Rodrigues de; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study how individual political views shape firm behavior and labor market outcomes. Using new micro-data on the political affiliation of business owners and private-sector workers in Brazil over the 2002-2019 period, we first document the presence of political assortative matching: business...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477636
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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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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466854
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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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