Public sector pay policy and private sector wages

We develop an equilibrium wage posting job search model with a public sector. We investigate the impact of public sector wage policy on labor market outcomes – specifically, the effect on private sector wage setting behavior. The model is tractable: we prove existence and uniqueness of equilibrium a...

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Autor: Tachibana, Thiago Yudi
Tipo de recurso: tesis de maestría
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:Brasil
Institución:Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional do FGV (FGV Repositório Digital)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/27519
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10438/27519
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Job search
Public sector
Private sector wage setting
Modelos de busca
Setor público
Determinação de salários no setor privado
Economia
Setor público - Brasil
Salários - Brasil
Setor privado - Brasil
Mercado de trabalho
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Sumario:We develop an equilibrium wage posting job search model with a public sector. We investigate the impact of public sector wage policy on labor market outcomes – specifically, the effect on private sector wage setting behavior. The model is tractable: we prove existence and uniqueness of equilibrium and also provide formal comparative statics results. Our motivation stems from the 10 log point increase in the public-private wage gap in Brazil during 2002-2012 – a largely overlooked fact in the discussion of Brazil’ inequality decline. This is still work in progress, and in the empirical implementation we will estimate the model and use it to evaluate the equilibrium impact of this increase in public sector wages.