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Measuring Rents from Public Employment : Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Kenya
Barton, Nicholas - 2017
Public employees in many developing economies earn much higher wages than similar private-sector workers. These wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950519
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The impact of an unexpected wage cut on corruption : evidence from a "xeroxed" exam
Borcan, Oana; Lindahl, Mikael; Mitrut, Andreea - 2012
This paper aims to understand how corruption responds to financial incentives and, in particular, it is an attempt to … identify the causal impact of a wage loss on the prevalence of corruption in the education sector. Specifically, we exploit the … Baccalaureate. To exploit the effect of an income shock on corruption, we use a difference-in-difference strategy and compare the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009549671
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The Impact of an Unexpected Wage Cut on Corruption : Evidence from a 'Xeroxed' Exam
Borcan, Oana - 2012
This paper aims to understand how corruption responds to financial incentives and, in particular, it is an attempt to … identify the causal impact of a wage loss on the prevalence of corruption in the education sector. Specifically, we exploit the … Baccalaureate. To exploit the effect of an income shock on corruption, we use a difference-in-difference strategy and compare the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104673
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Public-private sector wage differentials by type of contract : evidence from Spain
Ramos, Raúl; Sanromá, Esteban; Simón, Hipólito - 2014
The article examines public-private sector wage differentials in Spain using microdata from the Structure of Earnings Survey (Encuesta de Estructura Salarial). When applying various decomposition techniques, we find that it is important to distinguish by gender and type of contract. Our results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350839
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Earnings of public sector and private sector employees in Australia : is there a difference?
Borland, Jeff; Hirschberg, Joseph G.; Lye, Jenny N. - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000935607
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Earnings of public sector and private sector employees in Australia : is there a difference?
Borland, Jeff - In: The economic record : er 74 (1998) 224, pp. 36-53
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001242795
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The public pay gap in Britain : small differences that (don't) matter
Postel-Vinay, Fabien; Turon, Hélène - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 117 (2007), pp. 1460-1503
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003543793
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The public pay gap in Britain small differences that (don't?) matter
Postel-Vinay, Fabien; Turon, Hélène - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003187531
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The public pay gap in Britain : small differences that (don't?) matter
Postel-Vinay, Fabien (contributor);  … - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002977398
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Measuring rents from public employment : regression discontinuity evidence from Kenya
Barton, Nicholas; Bold, Tessa; Sandefur, Justin - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011710125