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Are public sector workers in developing countries overpaid? : evidence from a new global data set
Gindling, Thomas; Hasnain, Zahid; Newhouse, David Locke; … - 2019
This paper examines the public sector wage premium using nationally representative household surveys from 91 countries. The public sector generally pays a wage premium compared to all private sector salaried employees, but the size of the premium is sensitive to the choice of the private sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008006
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Was Weber right? : the effects of pay for ability and pay for performance on pro-social motivation, ability and effort in the public sector
Banuri, Sheheryar; Keefer, Philip - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531994
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Wage differentials between the public and private sectors in India
Glinskaya, Elena; Lokshin, Michael - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002953516
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What determines the size of public employment? : an empirical investigation
Herrera Aguilera, Santiago; Muñoz S., Ercio - 2019
Republic of Korea; and Mongolia. Countries in Europe and Central Asia show higher than predicted public employment, mostly in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012113855
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Love the job ... or the patient? : task vs. mission-based motivations in health care
Banuri, Sheheryar; Keefer, Philip; De Walque, Damien - 2018
A booming literature has argued that mission-based motives are a central feature of mission-oriented labor markets. This paper shifts the focus to task-based motivation and finds that it yields significantly more effort than mission-based motivation. Moreover, in the presence of significant task...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011809317
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How (not) to fix problems that matter : assessing and responding to Malawi's history of institutional reform
Bridges, Kate; Woolcock, Michael - 2017
Malawi can be understood as a microcosm of institutional reform approaches in developing countries more broadly. A common feature of such approaches, whether implemented by government or donors, is reform initiatives that yield institutions that "look like" those found in higher-performing...
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How public sector pay and employment affect labor markets : research issues
Stevenson, Gail - 1992
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Effects of public sector wages on corruption : wage inequality matters
Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli; Lokshin, Michael; Kolchin, Vladimir - Weltbankgruppe - 2021
The paper uses a new country-level, panel data set to study the effect of public sector wages on corruption. The …-corruption policies. Increasing the wages of public officials could help reduce corruption in countries with low public sector wage … inequality. In countries where public sector wages are highly unequal, however, raising the wages of government employees could …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012564880
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Estimating real production and expenditures across nations : a proposal for improving the Penn World Tables
Feenstra, Robert C.; Heston, Alan W.; Timmer, Marcel; … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003449835
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Fewer jobs or smaller paychecks? : aggregate crisis impacts in selected middle-income countries
Khanna, Gaurav; Newhouse, David Locke; Paci, Pierella - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009419646