NDLI: Measuring Rents from Public Employment: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Kenya

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Measuring Rents from Public Employment: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Kenya

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Author	Barton, Nicholas Bold, Tessa Sandefur, Justin
Copyright Year	2017
Description	Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal Public employees in many developing economies earn much higher wages than similar private-sector workers. These wage premia may reflect an efficient return to effort or unobserved skills, or an inefficient rent causing labor misallocation. To distinguish these explanations, we exploit the Kenyan government’s algorithm for hiring eighteen-thousand new teachers in 2010 in a regression discontinuity design. Fuzzy regression discontinuity estimates yield a civil-service wage premium of over 100 percent (not attributable to observed or unobserved skills), but no effect on motivation, suggesting rent-sharing as the most plausible explanation for the wage premium.
Related Links	http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/files/44377/measuring-rents-public-employment-regression-discontinuity-evidence-kenya.pdf https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm?abstractid=3013390
ISSN	10914358
e-ISSN	15565068
DOI	10.2139/ssrn.3013390
Journal	SSRN Electronic Journal
Language	English
Publisher	Elsevier BV
Publisher Date	2017-06-21
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal Industrial Relations Civil Servants Public Sector Wages Wage Gap
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Psychiatry and Mental Health

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