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Pre-crisis reforms, austerity measures and the public-private wage gap in two emerging economies

Nikolić, Jelena; Rubil, Ivica; Tomić, Iva - In: Economic systems 41 (2017) 2, pp. 248-265

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Overpaid clerks, underpaid managers : estimates of public-private sector wage gap in the Philippines

Olfindo, Rosechin - In: Southeast Asian journal of economics 6 (2018) 1, pp. 23-41

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Public Sector Employment and Earnings Differentials Across Countries : The Importance of Employee Preferences

Dickson, Lisa M. - 2007

This study uses individual-level data from Denmark, France, Germany, Norway and Switzerland to estimate the effects of employment in the public sector on earnings. The lack of a profit motive in the public sector may affect the types of workers who choose to work for the public sector. Using...

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Chapter 21 : Public Sector Labor Issues: Rights, Retrenchment, and Democracy

Mareschal, Patrice M.; Ciorici, Patricia - 2013

Public sector unions operate in politically challenging environments. Recent limitations on collective bargaining … governor (Early and Wilson, 2012). The susceptibility of unions to political changes stems in part from the legal environment … preferences. Preferences of elected officials related to collective bargaining rights, and unions more broadly, depend on various …

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Effects of Public Sector Wages on Corruption : Wage Inequality Matters

Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli; Lokshin, Michael; Kolchin, Vladimir - 2021

The paper uses a new country-level, panel data set to study the effect of public sector wages on corruption. The results show that wage inequality in the public sector is an important determinant of the effectiveness of anti-corruption policies. Increasing the wages of public officials could...

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The Economic Crisis, Public Sector Pay, and the Income Distribution

Callan, Tim - 2010

An important aspect of the impact of the economic crisis is how pay in the public sector responds in the face not only of the evolution of pay in the private sector, but also extreme pressure on public spending (of which pay is a very large proportion) as fiscal deficits soar. What are the...

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Personality and public sector employment

Maczulskij, Terhi; Viinikainen, Jutta - 2021

Using a representative survey combined with register data on long-term labour market outcomes, this paper examines how personality traits predict sorting into public and private sector employment among prime working-age individuals. To gain deeper insights into the dynamic dimensions of the...

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Labor Market Imperfections and the Firm's Wage Setting Policy

Félix, Sónia; Portugal, Pedro - 2016

that firm's monopsony power affects negatively the earnings of its workers and firm's total factor productivity is … considerably associated with higher earnings, ceteris paribus. We also find that firms use monopsony power for wage differentiation …

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Measuring links between labor monopsony and the gender pay gap in Brazil

Vick, Brandon - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 7 (2017) 10, pp. 1-28

This paper focuses on gender differences in job mobility and earnings for workers in Brazil. Monopsony theory suggests …

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The urban wage premium in imperfect labour markets

Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Manning, Alan; … - 2019

Using administrative data for West Germany, this paper investigates whether part of the urban wage premium stems from fierce competition in thick labour markets. We first establish that employers possess less wage-setting power in denser markets. Local differences in wage-setting power predict...

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