Chapter 53 Recent developments in public sector labor markets

Gregory, Robert; Borland, Jeff

doi:10.1016/s1573-4463(99)30044-4

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“…This is the case for countries having a small share of public employment in the labor market. The existence of such a positive premium is a well-documented empirical fact of developed economies, as shown in the surveys of Ehrenberg and Schwarz (1986), Bender (1998), and Gregory and Borland (1999). While there is little research on the determinants of the public wage premium, the literature on public sector labor markets reveals that the influence of public sector labor unions and the "vote producing" activities by civil servants are the potential reasons for the existence of the earnings differential.…”

Section: Householdsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Disaggregated approach to government spending shocks: a theoretical analysis

Cortuk

Güler

2014

Journal of Economic Policy Reform

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We examine different types of government spending while literature usually treats government spending as a homogenous compound. We disaggregate the government spending into three parts; namely, government investment, government wage component consumption (i.e. wage expenditure) expenditure, and non-wage component consumption (i.e. purchases of goods and services). Next, we estimate a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model that features a transmission mechanism with different types of government spending. In this regard, we manage to distinguish between different types of government spending where each type of spending has varied role in the economy. Such set up enables them produce different effects on macroeconomic variables.

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Section: Householdsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Disaggregated approach to government spending shocks: a theoretical analysis

Cortuk

Güler

2014

Journal of Economic Policy Reform

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“…The broad question of the public-sector labour market is dealt with in the excellent survey by Gregory and Borland (1999) in the Handbook of Labor Economics. In this section, we will restrict ourselves to one broad question: that of the level of public-sector employment, as compared to the private sector.…”

Section: Public-and Private-sector Employmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Public employment and political pressure: The case of French hospitals

Clark

Milcent

2011

Journal of Health Economics

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“…While wage schedules in private enterprises are usually guided by profit-maximization, public administrators are influenced by political goals. They may use the State wage policy as a means to increase their popularity and gain support from the bureaucracy to pursue those goals, which easily results in higher wages for government employees (GREGORY and BORLAND, 1999). Moreover, if unionization is marked by corporatism, powerful unions operating in the wellorganized and legally protected segment of the labor market can, in fact, increase total inequality.…”

Section: Public Sector Wagesmentioning

confidence: 99%