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Government Employment and Wages and Labor Market Performance
Demekas, Dimitri G.; Kontolemis, Zenon G. - 2021
Government wage, benefit, and employment decisions are not taken on a profit-maximizing basis and have a substantial impact on aggregate labor market performance and unemployment. In a two-sector labor market model with free mobility of labor, an increase in government wages or benefits reduces...
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Auswirkungen des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns auf Löhne und Arbeitszeiten : Studie im Auftrag der Mindestlohnkommission : Projektvergabe durch die Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz und...
Bachmann, Ronald; Boockmann, Bernhard; Gonschor, Myrielle; … - RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung; … - 2022
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Works councils and collective bargaining in Germany : the impact on productivity and wages
Hübler, Olaf; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2001
bargaining in Germany. Based on a simple bargaining model we derive our main hypothesis: In establishments covered by collective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402748
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Electoral cycles in MPs' salaries : evidence from the German States
Kauder, Björn; Krause, Manuela; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016
Members of parliament (MPs) often decide on their own salaries. Voters dislike self-serving politicians, and … politicians are keen to gratify their voters. In line with the political business cycle theories, politicians thus may well delay … increased by one percent. Politicians can increase their salaries at any point of time in the legislative period: understanding …
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Fiscal policy and the labour market : the effect of public sector employment and wages
Gomes, Pedro - 2010
I build a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with search and matching frictions and two sectors in order to study the labour market effects of public sector employment and wages. Public sector wages plays an important role in achieving the efficient allocation. High wages induce too...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009302182
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Employer concentration and wages for specialized workers
Thoresson, Anna - 2021
This paper studies how wages respond to a sudden change in employer concentration. It exploits a reform that deregulated the Swedish pharmacy market, which until 2009 was a monopoly. The reform involved a substantial increase in the number of employers on the pharmacy labor market. However, the...
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Do Higher Salaries Differentially Retain High-Ability Teachers?
Hendricks, Matthew - 2016
Research has clearly established that increasing teacher salaries reduces overall teacher attrition. A related question is whether higher salaries differentially retain high-ability teachers. Prior evidence suggests that the answer to this question is no. In this work, I revisit this question...
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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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Privatization and Changes in the Wage Structure : Evidence from Firm Personnel Records
Melly, Blaise; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2021
We investigate the wage effects of privatization using person-level firm-based panel datasets from one privatized and one nonprivatized public sector firm in the same country for the years immediately before and after privatization. Thus, we can analyze the before-after effects of privatization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324911
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Fiscal Policy and the Labour Market : The Effects of Public Sector Employment and Wages
Gomes, Pedro - 2010
I build a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with search and matching frictions and two sectors in order to study the labour market effects of public sector employment and wages. Public sector wages plays an important role in achieving the efficient allocation. High wages induce too...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135824