Wage Structure and Public Sector Employment: Sweden versus the United States 1970-2002
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- Ljungqvist, Lars & Domeij, David, 2006. "Wage Structure and Public Sector Employment: Sweden versus the United States 1970-2002," CEPR Discussion Papers 5921, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
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Keywords
Skill premium; employment; private sector; public sector; Sweden; United States.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
- J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAB-2006-10-21 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LTV-2006-10-21 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
- NEP-MAC-2006-10-21 (Macroeconomics)
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