The Structure of Wages
The Structure of Wages

Author: Edward P. Lazear

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2009-05-15

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 0226470512

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The distribution of income, the rate of pay raises, and the mobility of employees is crucial to understanding labor economics. Although research abounds on the distribution of wages across individuals in the economy, wage differentials within firms remain a mystery to economists. The first effort to examine linked employer-employee data across countries, The Structure of Wages:An International Comparison analyzes labor trends and their institutional background in the United States and eight European countries. A distinguished team of contributors reveal how a rising wage variance rewards star employees at a higher rate than ever before, how talent becomes concentrated in a few firms over time, and how outside market conditions affect wages in the twenty-first century. From a comparative perspective that examines wage and income differences within and between countries such as Denmark, Italy, and the Netherlands, this volume will be required reading for economists and those working in industrial organization.

Pay in the Public Sector
Pay in the Public Sector

Author: R. F. Elliott

Publisher: London : Macmillan

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13:

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Monograph on public sector wage structure trends and wage determination issues in the UK - discusses public expenditure and employment growth, collective bargaining, trade unionism, declining resort to arbitration, manual worker and nonmanual worker wage differentials, impact of incomes policies, etc., provides comparisons with the private sector, and includes civil servant and public servant wages. Graphs and references.

The Wage Structure and the Sorting of Workers Into the Public Sector
The Wage Structure and the Sorting of Workers Into the Public Sector

Author: George J. Borjas

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 45

ISBN-13:

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This paper uses data from the U.S. Decennial Census and the Current Population Surveys to document the differential shifts that occurred in the wage structures of the public and privatesectors between 1960 and 2000. The wage gap between the typical public sector worker and a comparable private sector worker was relatively constant for men during this period, but declined substantially for women. Equally important, wage dispersion in the public sector was increasing relative to wage dispersion in the private sector prior to 1970, at the time when public sector employment was rising rapidly. Since 1970, however, there has been a significant relative compression of the wage distribution in the public sector. The different evolutions of the wage structures in the two sectors are an important determinant of the sorting of workers across sectors. As a result of the relative wage compression, the public sector found it increasingly more difficult to attract and retain high-skill workers

Public Sector Pay and Adjustment
Public Sector Pay and Adjustment

Author: Christopher Colclough

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 1997-01-30

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1134741693

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Changes to levels of earnings in the public and private sectors have a critical role in the adjustment process. Case studies of Singapore, Korea, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Argentina show that in those countries which adjusted unsuccessfully real earnings declined sharply, often with a further negative impact on output. The governments of the more succes

Public Sector Pay Determination in the European Union
Public Sector Pay Determination in the European Union

Author: Robert Elliott

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1999-07-05

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 1349149462

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This book examines the procedures for determining the pay of public sector workers in six European Countries: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the UK. It reveals how rates of pay in the public sector compare to those in the private sector of each country and how the pay structure is, in all cases, quite different in the two sectors. The book also provides an explanation for the differences in pay between the sectors distinguishing the role played by the quite different institutions for setting public sector pay in the six countries.