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Under economic adjustment programs, do private sector wages respond to changes in public wages and employment?
Adam, Antonis - In: Journal of policy modeling : JPMOD ; a social science … 42 (2020) 6, pp. 1334-1351
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Wage leadership in U.S. labour markets between alternative levels of industry and governments
Black, David C.; Dowd, Michael Robert - In: Applied economics 56 (2024) 42, pp. 5050-5057
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The evolution of wages in early modern Normandy (1600-1850)
Chambru, Cédric; Maneuvrier-Hervieu, Paul - 2021
This paper presents new estimations of wages for Normandy between 1600 and 1850. We used a vast array of primary and … secondary sources to assemble two new databases on wages and commodity prices to establish a new regional consumer price index … resulting labour shortage, led to a convergence of wages across unskilled occupations and a relative catch-up with urban skilled …
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How public sector pay and employment affect labor markets : research issues
Stevenson, Gail - 1992
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The effects of public sector employment on the economy : the size and wage level of the public sector affect overall employment volatility and the economy
Caponi, Vincenzo - 2017
public wages are determined. Rigid public sector wages lead to perverse effects on private employment, while flexible public … wages lead to a stabilizing effect. Public employment also has important productivity and redistributive effects. …
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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...
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Are public sector workers in developing countries overpaid? : Evidence from a new global dataset
Gindling, Thomas; Hasnain, Zahid; Newhouse, David Locke; … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 126 (2020), pp. 1-16
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Labour demand research : towards a better match between better theory and better data
Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Varejão, José M. - 2014
At first blush, most advances in labour demand were achieved by the late 1980s. Since then progress might appear to have stalled. We argue to the contrary that significant progress has been made in understanding labour market frictions and imperfections, and in modelling search behaviour and...
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Employment cyclicality by firm size, wage, and productivity in Brazil
Cravo, Túlio; Jacinto, Paulo de Andrade; Schimanski, … - 2018 - Version: August 27th, 2018
firm size, wages and productivity are positively related. This paper constructs a unique monthly linked employer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011927684
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Earnings inequality and the informal economy : evidence from Serbia
Krstić, Gorana; Sanfey, Peter - 2010
We analyse the extent and evolution of informality and inequality in the Serbian labour market between 2002 and 2007, using data from the Living Standard Measurement Surveys (LSMS). Two surprising results emerge. First, the level of informal employment has risen significantly over the period,...
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