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In many countries, especially poor countries, a heavy burden of taxes, bribes, and bureaucratic hassles drives many producers into the informal sector. Is this situation explicable only as a consequence of either the ignorance or the ineptitude of the state authorities? On the contrary this...
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The status of public services is one of the most hotly debated issues surrounding the GATS. There are two approaches to distinguish such services from any other services: an institutional approach that focuses on the legal and institutional conditions governing supply (e.g. ownership status,...
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Dienstes als Arbeitgeber wird das Thema Personal als die Schlüsselressource für die Leistungsfähigkeit der deutschen Verwaltung … öffentlichen Verwaltung beeinträchtigen wird. Sie weist nach, dass sich beide Stadtstaaten bereits heute mit punktuellem … verstärken. Die Untersuchungsergebnisse zeigen jedoch, dass die hamburgische Verwaltung, aufbauend auf einer langen …
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Aufgrund neuer Marktanforderungen müssen Organisationen ihr Wertversprechen ständig anpassen. Durch die zunehmende Digitalisierung sind die Organisationen immer mehr befähigt, sich dieser Herausforderung zu stellen. Auch die Deutsche Rentenversicherung befindet sich mit 59.000...
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Using two nationally representative establishment data sets, this paper investigates collective bargaining coverage and firms' choice of governance structures for the employment relationship in Britain and in (western and eastern) Germany. Both countries have experienced a substantial decline in...
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The existing literature on inequality between private and public sectors focuses on cross-section differences in earnings levels. A more general way of looking at inequality between sectors is to recognize that forward-looking agents will care about income and job mobility too. We show that...
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This paper investigates gender differences between the log wage distributions of full-time British employees in the public and private sectors. After allowing for positive selection into full-time employment by women, we find significant and substantial gender earnings gaps, and evidence of...
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This paper draws attention to an increase in the size of the union membership wage premium in the UK public sector relative to the private sector. We find the public sector membership wage premium is approximately double that in the private sector controlling for a full range of individual, job...
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The paper estimates public sector wage differentials and their changes over time for men and women in the United Kingdom using the New Earnings Survey. It presents estimates that are robust to unobserved workforce characteristics and that also show the impact of policy changes and cyclical...
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We measure accruals in defined benefit (DB) pension plans for public and private sector workers in Britain, using typical differences in scheme rules and sector-specific lifetime age-earnings profiles by sex and educational group. We show not just that coverage by DB pension plans is greater in...
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