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Revisiting the publicprivate wage gap in Spain : new evidence and interpretation
León, Alba Couceiro de; 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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Differential Patterns between Private and Public Sector Wages in Spain
de León, Alba; Dolado, Juan Jose - 2022
This paper studies the wage differentials between the public and private sectors in Spain, as well as its distribution across different educational levels and by gender. To do so, the well-known Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition of mincerian wage regressions is applied for both sectors, breaking down...
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Unemployment, Status in Employment and Wages in Morocco
Boudarbat, Brahim - 2008
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014215498
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Differential patterns between private and public sector wages in Spain
León, Alba Couceiro de; Dolado, Juan J. - 2022
This paper studies the wage differentials between the public and private sectors in Spain, as well as its distribution across different educational levels and by gender. To do so, the well-known Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition of mincerian wage regressions is applied for both sectors, breaking down...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012886756
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Economics and politics of the public-private wage gap (the case of Russia)
Gimpelʹson, Vladimir E.; Lukiyanova, Anna; Šarunina, A. V. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011995927
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The Public-Private Sector Wage Differential in the UK : Evidence from Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data
Singleton, Carl - 2019
If fiscal policy exerts pressure on public services, then attention often falls on the public-private sector wage differential. Estimated with longitudinal employer-employee data for the years 2002-16 in the United Kingdom, among men there was no significant public sector wage premium. However,...
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Wage theft, economic conditions, and market power : the case of H-1B workers
DeVaro, Jed; Norlander, Peter - 2021
This study explores what determines employers' violations of the wage contracts of workers on H-1B temporary work visas, which occur when firms pay those workers below the promised prevailing or "market" wage. A theoretical framework is proposed that predicts more violations during economic...
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Is the Public Sector Wage Premium Real? Findings from Bangladesh
Islam, Shahidul; Hasan, Emran - 2021
The private sector in Bangladesh is a comparatively much larger component of the economy since the adaptation of privatization policies in the 1980s. After the latest pay scale (National Pay Scale 2015) in Bangladesh, public sector jobs have demanded the significant attention of prospective job...
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Differential patterns between private and public-sector wages in Spain
León, Alba Couceiro de; Dolado, Juan J. - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012818499
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Unions and wage inequality : the roles of gender, skill and public sector employment
Card, David E.; Lemieux, Thomas; Riddell, William 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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