How Do Public Sector Wages and Employment Respond to ...

Are government workers generally paid a premium over comparable private sector workers or do public-private pay dif- ferentials vary with economic conditions?

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It would seem, for instance, that public sector wages are less responsive to economic conditions (Freeman 1985) and to unionism (Cousineau and Girard 1991), but ...

This paper examines the changes over time in public sector wages and employment relative to private sector wages and employment using data from surveys of ...

How Do Public Sector Wages and Employment Respond to ...

Freeman R. How Do Public Sector Wages and Employment Respond to Economic Conditions. In: Public Sector Payrolls. University of Chicago Press ; 1986. pp.

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Steven F. Venti, 1987. "Wages in the Federal and Private Sectors," NBER Chapters, in: Public Sector Payrolls, pages 147-182, National Bureau of Economic ...

The effects of public sector employment on the economy

Flexible public sector wages that adjust to local productivity, or that are highly pro-cyclical, are crucial for public employment policy to generate positive ...

How Do Public Sector Wages and Employment Respond to ...

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How do public sector wages and employment respond to economic ...

How do public sector wages and employment respond to economic conditions? · Wages in the federal and private sectors · Wage leadership in U.S. labour markets ...

Government Wage Growth Lags Private Sector by Largest Margin on ...

Wage increases for private workers are generally exceeding those of public employees employed in similar industries or occupations.

Public-sector employment, wages and education decisions

We set up a search model with a private and a public sector. Employment and wages in the private sector are determined through the usual channels of free entry ...

Public-Sector Wages: A View from Economic Theory - NIESR

In the public sector, wages are an allocative mechanism, but also apolicy instrument ... Ideally, policymakers should set employment at a level high enough to ...

What we've been reading about public sector employment and wages

Public sector employees, in general, receive more generous compensation — both higher wages and larger benefits — compared to similar private ...

Interactions between private and public sector wages

Second, both public wages and employment have to be financed by an increase in taxes, which will reduce the overall gain from the match and increase the wage ...

Fiscal Policy and the Labour Market: The Effects of Public Sector ...

High wages induce too many unemployed to queue for public sector jobs, while if they are low, the government faces recruitment problems. The optimal steady- ...

Managing Government Wages and Employment - PFM Blog

Government wage and employment policies have important social and economic implications. The government is the major employer in many countries, ...

Public wages, public employment, and business cycle volatility

Higher public wages do appear to cause private wages to rise, while having an unclear effect on the volatility of private employment. Furthermore, point ...

The public-sector pay gap is widening. Unions help shrink it.

Strengthening collective bargaining rights for government workers would narrow the pay gap and reduce racial and gender inequality. How to fix ...

Chapter 3 PUBLIC SECTOR PAY FLEXIBILITY

In areas of the country where private sector wages are low, federal work is comparatively more attractive. We find that the government is able to recruit more ...

public sector employment and compensation - a framework (6

While it is common to do cross-national comparisons of the wage bill (either as a share of GDP or government expenditures) based on government fiscal data, ...

Tight Labor Market Drives Increase in Public Sector Wages - CBIZ

While benefits and perks are important, compensation remains a primary factor in employee decisions to join or stay with a public sector ...