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83 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17174
Identification of Ex Ante Returns Using Elicited Choice Probabilities: An Application to Preferences for Public-Sector Jobs
Romuald Meango, Esther Mirjam Girsberger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16549
Modelling Australian Public Service Careers
Robert Breunig, David Hansell, Nu Nu Win
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15676
Management and Performance in the Public Sector: Evidence from German Municipalities
Florian Englmaier, Gerd Muehlheusser, Andreas Roider, Niklas Wallmeier
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15665
Business Cycles and Police Hires
Fernando Saltiel, Cody Tuttle
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15079
Differential Patterns between Private and Public Sector Wages in Spain
Alba Couceiro de León, Juan J. Dolado
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15071
To Work or Not to Work? Effects of Temporary Public Employment on Future Employment and Benefits
Eva Mörk, Lillit Ottosson, Ulrika Vikman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14636
The Labor Market Earnings of Veterans: Is Military Experience More or Less Valuable than Civilian Experience?
Christos A. Makridis, Barry Hirsch
published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2021, 42 (3-4), 303-333
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14514
Public Sector Jobs: Working in the Public Sector in Europe and the US
Daniele Checchi, Alessandra Fenizia, Claudio Lucifora
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14177
The Gender Pay Gap in UK Medicine
Melanie K. Jones, Ezgi Kaya
published online as 'The gender pay gap in medicine: evidence from Britain' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 21 December 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14118
Personality and Public Sector Employment
Terhi Maczulskij, Jutta Viinikainen
published online as 'Personality and public sector employment in Finland' in: Labor, 9 December 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13847
The Impact of Employment Quotas on the Economic Lives of Disadvantaged Minorities in India
Nishith Prakash
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 180, 494-509
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12985
Teacher Labor Markets in Developing Countries
Lee Crawfurd, Todd Pugatch
forthcoming in: Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Education
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12702
You’re the One That I Want! Public Employment and Women’s Labor Market Outcomes
Pedro Maia Gomes, Zoë Kuehn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12653
When Correspondence Studies Fail to Detect Hiring Discrimination
Pierre Cahuc, Stéphane Carcillo, Andreea Minea, Marie-Anne Valfort
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12579
Labour Market Flows: Accounting for the Public Sector
Idriss Fontaine, Ismael Galvez-Iniesta, Pedro Maia Gomes, Diego Vila-Martin
forthcoming in: Labour Economics, 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12527
The Impact of High-Performance Work Systems on Employees: A Sectoral Comparison
Michael White, Alex Bryson
forthcoming in: Labour
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12517
High Performance Work Systems and Public Sector Workplace Performance in Britain
Michael White, Alex Bryson
published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2021,73 (3), 1057-1076
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12392
Questioning the Stereotype of the "Malingering Bureaucrat": Absence from Work in the Public and Private Sector in Germany
Stephanie Prümer, Claus Schnabel
published in: Kyklos, 2019, 72 (4), 570-603
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12247
Economics and Politics of the Public-Private Wage Gap (The Case of Russia)
Vladimir Gimpelson, Anna Lukiyanova, Anna Sharunina
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12078
The Role of Body Weight for Health, Earnings and Life Satisfaction
Olaf Hübler
published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 240 (5), 653-676
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12026
Do Female Managers Help to Lower Within-Firm Gender Pay Gaps? Public Institutions vs. Private Enterprises
Iga Magda, Ewa Cukrowska-Torzewska
published as 'Do Women Managers Lower Gender Pay Gaps? Evidence from Public and Private Firms' in: Feminist Economics, 2019, 25 (4), 185 - 210
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11965
HPWS in the Public Sector: Are There Mutual Gains?
Michael White, Alex Bryson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11964
Unions and Wage Inequality: The Roles of Gender, Skill and Public Sector Employment
David Card, Thomas Lemieux, W. Craig Riddell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11895
Public versus Private Sector Wage Gap in Egypt: Evidence from Quantile Regression on Panel Data
Aysit Tansel, Halil Ibrahim Keskin, Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir
substantially revised version published as 'Public-Private Sector Wage Gap by Gender in Egypt: Evidence from Quantile Regression on Panel Data, 1998-2018' in: World Development, 2020, 135, 105060
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11095
Serving the Public Interest in Several Ways: Theory and Empirics
Robert Dur, Max van Lent
published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 13-24
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11091
Heterogeneity and the Public Sector Wage Policy
Pedro Maia Gomes
published in: International Economic Review, 2018, 59 (3), 1469 -1489
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11091
Heterogeneity and the Public Sector Wage Policy
Pedro Maia Gomes
published in: International Economic Review, 2018, 59 (3), 1469 -1489
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11091
Heterogeneity and the Public Sector Wage Policy
Pedro Maia Gomes
published in: International Economic Review, 2018, 59 (3), 1469 -1489
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11014
Informality, Public Employment and Employment Protection in Developing Countries
Shaimaa Yassin, François Langot
publisehd in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (1), 326-348
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10726
Differences in Positions along a Hierarchy: Counterfactuals Based on an Assignment Model
Laurent Gobillon, Dominique Meurs, Sébastien Roux
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10719
Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials in Australia
Stephane Mahuteau, Kostas Mavromaras, Sue Richardson, Rong Zhu
published in: Economic Record, 2017, 93, s105–s121
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10467
Public-Sector Employment in an Equilibrium Search and Matching Model
James Albrecht, Monica Robayo-Abril, Susan Vroman
published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (617), 35-61
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10118
Pay for Locally Monitored Performance? A Welfare Analysis for Teacher Attendance in Ugandan Primary Schools
Jacobus Cilliers, Ibrahim Kasirye, Clare Leaver, Pieter Serneels, Andrew Zeitlin
published in: Journal of Public Economics 2018, 167, 69-90
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9936
Who Wins? Evaluating the Impact of UK Public Sector Pension Scheme Reforms
Alexander M. Danzer, Peter Dolton, Chiara Rosazza Bondibene
published in: National Institute Economic Review, 2016, 237, 38-46
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9931
The Increase of the Gender Wage Gap in Italy during the 2008-2012 Economic Crisis
Daniela Piazzalunga, Maria Laura Di Tommaso
published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2019, 17 (2), 171–193
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9385
Disentangling the Role of Contract Types and Sector Disparities for Public Service Motivation
Christian Grund, Kirsten Thommes
revised version published as 'The Role of Contract Types for Employees' Public Service Motivation' in: Schmalenbach Business Review, 2017, 18, 377-398
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9271
A Detailed Decomposition Analysis of the Public-Private Sector Wage Gap in South Africa
Prudence Magejo, Miracle Benhura
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9089
Can Helping the Sick Hurt the Able? Incentives, Information and Disruption in a Disability-Related Welfare Reform
Nitika Bagaria, Barbara Petrongolo, John Van Reenen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8992
Does Performance Information Affect Job Seekers in Selecting Private Providers in Voucher-Based ALMP Programs?
Christer Gerdes
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8315
The Public Sector Wage Premium in Spain: Evidence from Longitudinal Administrative Data
Laura Hospido, Enrique Moral-Benito
published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 42, 101–122
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8239
Intrinsic Motivations of Public Sector Employees: Evidence for Germany
Robert Dur, Robin Zoutenbier
published in: German Economic Review, 2015, 16(3), 343-366
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8238
Are Public Sector Workers Different? Cross-European Evidence from Elderly Workers and Retirees
Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 4:11, 2015
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8185
The Gender-Career Estimation Gap
Lutz C. Kaiser
published in: M. Connerley, J. Wu (eds.), The Handbook on Well-Being of Working Women, Springer 2016, 429-448
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7644
Job Satisfaction and Self-Selection into the Public or Private Sector: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Natalia Danzer
revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 57(C), 46-62.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7524
The Effect of Public Wages on Corporate Compensation in Hungary
Álmos Telegdy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7313
An Anatomy of Public Sector Unions
Barry Hirsch
published in: Michael Green and Samuel Estreicher (eds.), The Challenge for Collective Bargaining: Proceedings of the NYU 65th Annual Conference on Labor, LexisNexis, 2013
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7313
An Anatomy of Public Sector Unions
Barry Hirsch
published in: Michael Green and Samuel Estreicher (eds.), The Challenge for Collective Bargaining: Proceedings of the NYU 65th Annual Conference on Labor, LexisNexis, 2013
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6873
Promotion and Wages in Mid-Career: Gender, Unionism, and Sector
John T. Addison, Orgul Demet Ozturk, Si Wang
revised version published as 'The Role of Gender in Promotion and Pay over a Career' in: Journal of Human Capital, 2014, 8 (3), 280-317
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6738
Incentives in the Public Sector: Evidence from a Government Agency
Simon Burgess, Carol Propper, Marisa Ratto, Emma Tominey
published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (605), F117 - F141
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6653
Does It Pay to Be a Cadre? Estimating the Returns to Being a Local Official in Rural China
Jian Zhang, John T. Giles, Scott Rozelle
Journal of Comparative Economics, 2012, 40 (3), 337-356
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6645
Strengthening State Capabilities: The Role of Financial Incentives in the Call to Public Service
Ernesto Dal Bó, Frederico S. Finan, Martín A. Rossi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6534
The Determinants of Earnings Inequalities: Panel Data Evidence from South Africa
Andrew Kerr, Francis J. Teal
published as 'The Determinants of Earnings Inequalities: Panel Data Evidence from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa' in: Journal of African Economics, 2015, 24 (4), 530- 558
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5825
The Effect of Public Sector Employment on Women's Labour Market Outcomes
Brindusa Anghel, Sara de la Rica, Juan J. Dolado
published in: I. Sanchez de Madariaga, S. de la Rica and J. Dolado (Eds.), Libro Blanco sobre la Situación de la Mujer en la Ciencia Espaniola. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Madrid, 2011
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5656
Total Reward in the UK in the Public and Private Sectors
Alexander M. Danzer, Peter Dolton
published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (4), 584-594
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5322
Interactions between Private and Public Sector Wages
António Afonso, Pedro Maia Gomes
published in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2014, 39, 97-112.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5321
Fiscal Policy and the Labour Market: The Effects of Public Sector Employment and Wages
Pedro Maia Gomes
published as 'Optimal public sector wages' in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (587), 1425-1451.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5321
Fiscal Policy and the Labour Market: The Effects of Public Sector Employment and Wages
Pedro Maia Gomes
published as 'Optimal public sector wages' in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (587), 1425-1451.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4948
The Economic Crisis, Public Sector Pay, and the Income Distribution
Tim Callan, Brian Nolan, John R. Walsh
published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2011, 32, 207-225
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4386
Improving the Labor Market Outcomes of Minorities: The Role of Employment Quota
Nishith Prakash
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4051
Individual Teacher Incentives, Student Achievement and Grade Inflation
Pedro S. Martins
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3941
Are Public Sector Workers Underpaid in Russia? Estimating the Public-Private Wage Gap
Vladimir Gimpelson, Anna Lukiyanova
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3933
Small Business Economics of the Lakota Fund on the Native American Indian Reservation
David A. Benson, Aaron Lies, Albert A. Okunade, Phanindra V. Wunnava
published in: Small Business Economics, 2011, 36 (2), 157-168
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3858
On the Determinants of Pay of CEOs in UK Public Sector Higher Education Institutions
Ray Bachan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3562
Occupational Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap in Private- and Public-Sector Employment: A Distributional Analysis
Juan D. Barón, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
published in: Economic Record, 2010, 86 (273), 227 - 246
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3503
Risk Aversion and Sorting into Public Sector Employment
Christian Pfeifer
published in: German Economic Review, 2011, 12 (1), 85 - 99
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3427
Public Sector Pay Gap in France: New Evidence Using Panel Data
Olivier Bargain, Blaise Melly
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3385
Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and the Private Sector
Simon Luechinger, Stephan Meier, Alois Stutzer
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2010, 45(4), 998-1045
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3373
The Impact of the Public Sector Pay Review Bodies in the UK
Peter Dolton, Gerry Makepeace
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3247
Labor Market Policy Options of the Kurdistan Regional Government
Almas Heshmati
published in: Heshmati, The Economy of Southern Kurdistan, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2010
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3158
The Public-Private Sector Gender Wage Differential: Evidence from Matched Employee-Workplace Data
Monojit Chatterji, Karen A. Mumford, Peter N. Smith
published as 'The public-private sector gender wage differential in Britain: evidence from matched employee-workplace data ' in: Applied Economics, 2011, 43 (26), 3819 - 3833
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3125
Ownership and Wages: Estimating Public-Private and Foreign-Domestic Differentials Using LEED from Hungary, 1986–2003
John S. Earle, Álmos Telegdy
published in: Analysis of Firms and Employees - Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches (F. Andersson, S. Bender, J. Lane, K. Shaw, and T. von Wachter, eds.), NBER and University of Chicago, 2008.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2781
The Public-Private Sector Wage Differential for Full-Time Male Employees in Britain: A Preliminary Analysis
Monojit Chatterji, Karen A. Mumford
substantially revised version published as: 'Flying High and Laying Low in the Public and Private Sectors: A Comparison of Pay Differentials for Male, Full Time Employees.' Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 2012, 15 (3), 235-259
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2019
The Happiness Gains from Sorting and Matching in the Labor Market
Simon Luechinger, Alois Stutzer, Rainer Winkelmann
published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2010, 30, 233–251
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1987
Public Sector Pay and Corruption: Measuring Bribery from Micro Data
Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Klara Sabirianova Peter
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91 (5-6), 963-991
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1964
Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction
Simon Luechinger, Stephan Meier, Alois Stutzer
published in: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2008, 24 (2), 476-488
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1576
Where Are the Babies? Labor Market Conditions and Fertility in Europe
Alicia Adsera
published in: European Journal of Population, 2011, 27 (1), 1 - 32
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1438
The (Unexpected) Structure of "Rents" on the French and British Labour Markets
Andrew E. Clark, Claudia Senik
published in: Journal of Socio-Economics, 2006, 35 (2), 180-196
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1413
Why Is the Public Sector More Labor-Intensive? A Distortionary Tax Argument
Panu Poutvaara, Andreas Wagener
published in: Journal of Economics, 2008, 94 (2), 105–124
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1373
Is There a Glass Ceiling over Europe? Exploring the Gender Pay Gap across the Wages Distribution
Wiji Arulampalam, Alison L. Booth, Mark L. Bryan
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (2), 163-186
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1069
A Menu of Minimum Wage Variables for Evaluating Wages and Employment Effects: Evidence from Brazil
Sara Lemos
published as 'Minimum Wage Policy and Employment Effects: Evidence from Brazil' in: Economía: Journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, 2004, 5 (1), 219-266
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1041
The Public Sector Pay Gap in France, Great Britain and Italy
Claudio Lucifora, Dominique Meurs
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2003, 52(1), 43-59
IZA Discussion Paper No. 724
The Impact of Deunionisation on Earnings Dispersion Revisited
John T. Addison, Ralph Bailey, W. Stanley Siebert
published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 26, 337-363
IZA Discussion Paper No. 395
Stakeholders, Bargaining and Strikes
Paola Manzini, Clara Ponsatí
revised version published as 'Stakeholder Bargaining Games' in: International Journal of Game Theory, 2006, 34 (1), 67-77
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