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Wage policies in the public sector during wholesale privatization

Nikolic, Jelena - In: IZA World of Labor (2017)

Examining the implications of changes in public sector wage-setting arrangements due to privatization is a relatively new area of economics research, with few studies having analyzed the effects of public sector restructuring on relative wages in developed countries. There is, however, a growing...

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The Impact of the Public Sector Pay Review Bodies in the UK

Dolton, Peter; Makepeace, Gerry - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper examines the impact of the Pay Review Bodies (PRBs) on the public sector pay of their remit groups. We compare the real weekly earnings of groups of workers in occupations covered by PRBs, in the remainder of the public sector and in the private sector using LFS data from 1993 to 2006...

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Is the Public Sector Wage Premium Real? Findings from Bangladesh

Islam, Shahidul; Hasan, Emran - 2021

The private sector in Bangladesh is a comparatively much larger component of the economy since the adaptation of privatization policies in the 1980s. After the latest pay scale (National Pay Scale 2015) in Bangladesh, public sector jobs have demanded the significant attention of prospective job...

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Undermining or Promoting Democratic Government? An Economic and Empirical Analysis of the Two Views of Public Sector Collective Bargaining

Dau-Schmidt, Kenneth Glenn; Khan, Mohammad - 2014

narrow taxpayer interests and government monopsony power in employment. Moreover, unions, in both the private and the public … outcome. Public sector unions represent important public policy interests in collective bargaining and legislative lobbying … and act as a check on government monopsony power in employment. These countervailing views of public sector collective …

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What Would the Average Public Sector Employee be Paid in the Private Sector?

Siminski, Peter - School of Accounting, Economics, and Finance, … - 2008

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Are Low Skill Public Sector Workers Really Overpaid? A Quasi-Differenced Panel Data Analysis

Siminski, Peter - School of Accounting, Economics, and Finance, … - 2011

Public-private sectoral wage differentials have been studied extensively using quantile regression techniques. These typically find large public sector premiums at the bottom of the wage distribution. This may imply that low skill workers are ‘overpaid’, prompting concerns over efficiency....

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Economics and Politics of the Public-Private Wage Gap (The Case of Russia)

Gimpelson, Vladimir; Lukiyanova, Anna; Sharunina, Anna - 2019

The paper explores the public-private wage gap in the Russian economy over time and along the whole wage distribution. Using the RLMS-HSE panel data set, we examine how gaps at various points of wage distribution changed from 2005 to 2015 and present decompositions of the gaps into components...

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Labor-market concentration and labor compensation

Qiu, Yue; Sojourner, Aaron - 2019

This paper estimates the effect of labor-market concentration on labor compensation across the U.S. private sector since 2000. We distinguish between concentration in local labor markets versus local product markets, guarding against bias from confounded product-market concentration. Analysis...

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Differential patterns between private and public-sector wages in Spain

León, Alba Couceiro de; Dolado, Juan J. - 2022

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Labor-Market Concentration and Labor Compensation

Qiu, Yue; Sojourner, Aaron J. - 2019

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