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I identify wage spillovers from the public to the corporate sector with the help of a large and sudden public sector wage increase, which raised real compensation by 40 percent in two years, changing the average public wage premium from minus 10 to plus 12 percent. Using a dataset covering about...
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Using a large and unexpected public wage increase in Hungary which changed the public wage premium in 2002 from -17 to …
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We provide a detailed descriptive analysis of the long-term effects of the 50 percent public sector wage increase initiated by the government in 2002 in order to improve the relative situation of public sector workers. The aim of this policy was to attract high quality workers to the public...
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The paper investigates teachers' decisions to leave the profession. First we examine the role of earnings and earnings in alternative occupations in these decisions, and then the paper discusses how the public sector wage increase in 2002 has effected exiting decisions of teachers. Using large...
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We provide a detailed descriptive analysis of the long-term effects of the 50 percent public sector wage increase initiated by the government in 2002 in order to improve the relative situation of public sector workers. The aim of this policy was to attract high quality workers to the public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009295497
I identify wage spillovers from the public to the corporate sector with the help of a large and sudden public sector wage increase, which raised real compensation by 40 percent in two years, changing the average public wage premium from minus 10 to plus 12 percent. Using a dataset covering about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077321
I identify wage spillovers from the public to the corporate sector with the help of a large public sector wage increase, which raised public sector wages by 40 percent in two years time, changing the average public relative wage from a fallback of 10.5 percent to a 12.5 percent premium. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494740
distribution in Hungary from 1992 until 2003. Over the time period covered by the analysis the public sector had witnessed large … results show that the public sector within-group earnings equalising effect for male graduates in Hungary was three times … greater than the similar estimate reported by studies in developed market economies. -- wages ; public sector ; Hungary …
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quality of workers moving from the private to the public sector in Hungary. Special emphasis is put on the unique pay rises …
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The paper starts with discussing institutional framework for public sector wage setting in Russia. Given that individual choice of the sector is endogenous to wages, the authors recommend alternative econometric techniques for the public-private wage gap estimation. Applying switching regression...
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