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Are Public Sector Workers in Developing Countries Overpaid? Evidence from a New Global Data Set

Gindling, T. H. - 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...

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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 - 2017

This paper examines the effects of pecuniary compensation on the ability and motivation of individuals inorganizations with non-pecuniary or pro-social missions. In particular, the paper compares flat pay systems, unrelated with ability or effort, to two other systems that are considered...

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Public Sector Size and Performance Management : A Case-Study of Post-Revolution Tunisia

Brockmeyer, Anne - 2017

This paper examines public sector size and performance management in post-revolution Tunisia, drawing on macro-empirical, legal, and qualitative analyses. The paper first shows that public sector employment figures and the wage bill have increased significantly since the 2011 revolution, but...

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Tailoring Civil Service Pay Analysis and Advice to Context : Challenges, Approaches, and the Case of Lao Pdr

Barma, Naazneen - 2017

The adequacy of compensation for government workers and the affordability of the public sector wage bill are important concerns for many developing countries. Suitable pay is considered a necessary -- albeit far from sufficient -- condition for attracting and retaining skilled public sector...

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Intrinsic Motivation, Effort and the Call to Public Service

Banuri, Sheheryar - 2017

Pay schemes in the public sector aim to attract motivated, high-ability applicants. A nascent literature has found positive effects of higher pay on ability and no or slightly positive effects on motivation. This paper revisits this issue with a novel subject pool, students destined for the...

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Models of Public Service Reform : A Problem-Solving Approach

McCourt, Willy - 2017

This paper identifies six models of public service reform that have been practiced in developing countries over the past half-century. It critically reviews their implementation, discussing them as attempted solutions to problems that have arisen in the policy process in different countries. The...

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Hasnain, Zahid - 2017

The objective of this paper is to provide a review of the theoretical and, in particular, empirical literature on performance-related pay in the public sector spanning the fields of public administration, psychology, economics, education, and health with the aim of distilling useful lessons for...

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Higher Wages, Lower Pay : Public vs. Private Sector Compensation in Peru

Coppola, Andrea - 2017

Do public sector employees earn less than their counterparts in the private sector? This paper addresses this question in the case of Peru, a country where civil service reform is being debated yet the only available empirical studies on wage differentials date back to the late 1980s. Using data...

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Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials and Returns to Education in Djibouti

Seshan, Ganesh K. - 2016

Do public sector workers earn a wage premium in Djibouti and are the returns to education different across the sectors? The authors estimate private and public sector wage earnings using 1996 household survey data, while controlling for selectivity using Heckman's two stage approach. They find...

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India's Internal Labor Migration Paradox : The Statistical and the Real

Nayyar, Gaurav - 2018

Internal labor migration rates in India have been largely static and low in recent times compared with those in other … the India Human Development Survey, which provides a more recent source of data compared with the Census and other …-12, empirical analysis based on the India Human Development Survey highlights several socioeconomic factors associated with the …

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