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UNEMPLOYMENT, STATUS IN EMPLOYMENT AND WAGES IN MOROCCO

BOUDARBAT, Brahim - In: Applied Econometrics and International Development 6 (2006) 1

High unemployment rates among educated workers in Morocco and many other developing countries is a serious issue. The worsening unemployment problem among educated workers in Morocco started with the cuts to public sector hiring under structural adjustment policies implemented in 1983. Thus,...

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Earning of Public Sector and Private Sector Employees in Australia: Is There a Difference?

Borland, J.; Hirschberg, J.; Lyse, J. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 1996

This study examines differences in average weekly earnings between public sector and private sector employees in Australia. It is founded that - in aggregate and for most one-digit occupation groups - male and female public sector employees have significantly higher evarage weekly earnings than...

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The Minimum Wage and a Non-Competitive Market for Qualifications

Lanot, Gauthier; Sousounis, Panos - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2015

In this paper we consider an equilibrium model of demand and supply for several qualifications first in a competitive setting and then in a non-competitive setting. We propose a tractable analytical framework, i.e. when workers choose between qualifications according to a multinomial logit model...

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Public_Private Employment Choice, Wage Differential and Gender in Turkey.

Tansel, A. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1999

There is no evidence on the extent of public versus private wage differentials in Turkey. The main objective of this paper is to examine the factors which explain the employment choice and the wage differentials in the public administration, state owned enterprises and the formal private wage...

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Pay Differentials between Government and Private Sector Employees in Sweden

Gustafsson, Siv - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1977

The human capital model predicts that in equilibrium and in the absence of discrimination units of human capital possessed by individuals are paid the same rentals. This would hold also when comparing private and government sectors. Only non-pecuniary rewards such as better job security of...

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Public sector pay policy in East European countries

Lupu, Dan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The public sector salaries in general, but especially in the civil administration has been and will be a topical issue, highly controversial, and with a permanent presence in the media. This article presents the developments that took place in wages of Eastern European public servants as a...

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Changes in Public and Private Sector Pay Structures in Two Emerging Market Economies during the Crisis

Nikolic, Jelena; Rubil, Ivica; Tomic, Iva - Ekonomski Institut Zagreb - 2014

This paper estimates public-private sector wage differentials in two emerging market economies - Croatia and Serbia - between 2008 and 2011 in order to understand changes in the gap resulting from austerity measures undertaken by each sector. The paper focuses on counterfactual decompositions of...

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The Behavioral Effects of Minimum Wages

Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Zehnder, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

The prevailing labor market models assume that minimum wages do not affect the labor supply schedule. We challenge this view in this paper by showing experimentally that minimum wages have significant and lasting effects on subjects’ reservation wages. The temporary introduction of a minimum...

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The Behavioural Effects of Minimum Wages

Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Zehnder, Christian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

The prevailing labour market models assume that minimum wages do not affect the labour supply schedule. We challenge this view in this paper by showing experimentally that minimum wages have significant and lasting effects on subjects’ reservation wages. The temporary introduction of a minimum...

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Product Market Evidence on the Employment Effects of the Minimum Wage

French, Eric; Aaronson, Dan - Econometric Society - 2004

employment in response to a 10 percent minimum wage change. We then introduce monopsony power in local labor markets. We identify … the extent of monopsony power using information on the degree to which minimum wage cost shocks are passed on to consumers … an increase in the minimum wage, the monopsony model potentially implies that employment can rise and prices fall in …

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