This article is the first attempt to use the VAR technique to investigate the effect of fiscal policy in Israel on GDP, aggregate demand in the private sector, private consumption and private investment. The research is carried out using quarterly cross-section data for the period 1986-2008....

This study examines the predictions of the theory of incentives, under which wage that is less sensitive to level of performance or skills attracts lower quality employees, while wage that is more sensitive to these factors attracts higher quality employees. The distribution of wage in the...

This research examines whether there is a gap in wages between women and men starting to work in the public sector, and if so — what the reasons are for the gap and how it developed over the past 16 years. The research shows that at the start of the period a significant wage gap existed in...