the labor force depend crucially on the structure of the labor market. An increase of skilled public-sector wages has a …

research suggests that these effects are uncertain and critically depend on how 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 …

, an increase in government wages or benefits reduces private sector employment, and government employment is not an …

Motivated by recent debates on the possible role of wages as an income policy tool, in this study we examine the … dynamic inter-relationship between wages in Bulgaria, mainly in the context of its EU accession. Relative to the WDN studies … determinant of the other two wages. We demonstrate that minimum wage increases do not cause changes in average wages in either the …