Difficulties of Deregulation When Wage Costs are the Major Cost

Wachter, Michael L.; Hirsch, Barry T.; Gillula, James W.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-1671-2_1

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“…Sector-wise, I have chosen to study a hard case for delegation. Postal policy exhibits many aspects which are rather typical of social regulation, with the redistributive implications of the universal service obligation (Cremer et al 2008: 24 -5) and with the labour intensiveness of the business complicating deregulation (Watcher et al 2001). Also, credibility pressures will be limited owing to the low degree of internationalization and technological change, which differentiates the postal from the telecoms sector where the need for investment was acute (Thatcher 2007a: 128).…”

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Between commitment and control: varieties of delegation in the European postal sector

Eckert¹

2010

Journal of European Public Policy

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Postal regulation has changed dramatically within the European Union over the past decade. This article theorizes and empirically investigates domestic conditions which have shaped the institutional realization of regulatory reform. It seeks to explore how the commitment -control problem, inherent to any delegated setting, has been resolved in different countries. In which ways have national governments delegated regulatory powers to independent agencies and how do these operate in practice? Combining delegation theory and the variety of capitalism approach, expectations for three distinct varieties of delegation are formulated which are then exposed to empirical scrutiny studying the UK, Germany and France. The typology accounts for cross-country variance in de facto agency independence and regulatory practice, but contradicts patterns of formal delegation. In view of a striking discrepancy between formal arrangements and actual practice, the author makes a strong argument in favour of studying the dynamic and longitudinal effects of interaction.

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Between commitment and control: varieties of delegation in the European postal sector

Eckert¹

2010

Journal of European Public Policy

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“…An exception to this general approach is provided in the work of Wachter, Linneman, Hirsch and Gillula (Linneman and Wachter 1990;Hirsch, Wachter and Gillula 1999;Wachter, Hirsch and Gillula 2001) who argue that part of the returns to union membership are appropriately incorporated into public sector wage differentials. In this view, both public and 12.…”

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Public Sector Earnings Comparability

Belman

Heywood

Voos

2003

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Summary Using the postal service as an example, this article highlights the critical role played by a series of “implicit” judgments when estimating the government earnings differential. Regression estimates demonstrate that alternative treatments of location, gender, industry, occupation and union status result in estimates ranging from a double digit advantage for postal workers to no advantage at all. We argue that the standard of comparability, comparing similar workers doing similar work, requires that judgments about samples and controls be made explicit as they largely determine the resulting estimates.

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Postal Administrations and Non-Postal Products

Mitchell

2002

Postal and Delivery Services

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Difficulties of Deregulation When Wage Costs are the Major Cost

Cited by 4 publications

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Between commitment and control: varieties of delegation in the European postal sector

Between commitment and control: varieties of delegation in the European postal sector

Public Sector Earnings Comparability

Postal Administrations and Non-Postal Products

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