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Revisiting the publicprivate wage gap in Spain: New evidence and interpretation
de León, Alba Couceiro; Dolado, Juan J. - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 14 (2023) 3/4, pp. 353-377
This paper updates the available evidence on the public-private wage gap in Spain, which dates back to 2012. Through microdata drawn from the last three waves of the Wage Structure Survey (2010, 2014 and 2018), we study how this gap and its distribution by gender and education have evolved...
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Monopsonistic competition, low-wage labour markets, and minimum wages: An empirical analysis
Bachmann, Ronald; Frings, Hanna - 2015
This paper investigates the degree of monopsony power of employers in different industries against the background of a …
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Monopsonistic Competition, Low-Wage Labour Markets, and Minimum Wages: An Empirical Analysis
Bachmann, Ronald; Frings, Hanna - 2016
This paper investigates the degree of monopsony power of employers in different industries against the background of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011494334
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Wage policies in the public sector during wholesale privatization
Nikolic, Jelena - In: IZA World of Labor (2017)
Examining the implications of changes in public sector wage-setting arrangements due to privatization is a relatively new area of economics research, with few studies having analyzed the effects of public sector restructuring on relative wages in developed countries. There is, however, a growing...
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Economics and Politics of the Public-Private Wage Gap (The Case of Russia)
Gimpelson, Vladimir; Lukiyanova, Anna; Sharunina, Anna - 2019
The paper explores the public-private wage gap in the Russian economy over time and along the whole wage distribution. Using the RLMS-HSE panel data set, we examine how gaps at various points of wage distribution changed from 2005 to 2015 and present decompositions of the gaps into components...
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Labor-Market Concentration and Labor Compensation
Qiu, Yue; Sojourner, Aaron J. - 2019
This paper estimates the effect of labor-market concentration on labor compensation across the U.S. private sector since 2000. We distinguish between concentration in local labor markets versus local product markets, guarding against bias from confounded product-market concentration. Analysis...
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Unions and Wage Inequality: The Roles of Gender, Skill and Public Sector Employment
Card, David; Lemieux, Thomas; Riddell, W. Craig - 2018
unionized employees in North America are women. While early studies of unions and inequality focused on males, recent studies … examine both and reveal striking gender differences. A consistent - and puzzling - finding is that unions reduce wage …, unions reduce economy-wide wage inequality by less than 10% in both countries. However, union impacts on wage inequality are …
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Pay Differentials between Government and Private Sector Employees in Sweden
Gustafsson, Siv - 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-Private Sector Wage Differentials in Australia
Mahuteau, Stéphane; Mavromaras, Kostas G.; Richardson, Sue - 2017
This paper examines wage differentials between public sector and private sector workers in Australia. After controlling for observed characteristics and individual fixed effects, we show that on average workers in the public sector earn about 5.1% percent more hourly wages than those in the...
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Public versus private sector wage gap in Egypt: Evidence from quantile regression on panel data
Tansel, Aysit; Keskin, Halil İbrahim; Özdemir, Abidin - 2018
This paper considers the public and private sector wage earners in Egypt and examines their wage distribution during 1998-2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We estimate the public-private sector wage gap with Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at different quantiles of the...
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