Local flexibility in wage setting: evidence from the Norwegian local public sector
Local flexibility in wage setting: evidence from the Norwegian local public sector
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工资设定的地方灵活性：来自挪威地方公共部门的证据
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2006
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Bjarne Strøm
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Torberg Falch;Bjarne Strøm
斯堪的纳维亚国家的公共部门是集中确定工资制度的突出例子。在挪威，1990年实行的工资框架制度为地方灵活性提供了更大的空间，在该制度中，全国工资等级制度仅像最低工资制度一样运作。我们使用一个独特的数据库来分析这项改革的效果，在这个数据库中，我们可以长期跟踪雇员和他们的地方政府，并探索控制固定的个人效应和固定的雇主效应的后果。我们发现，1990年后地方政府间的工资差异有所扩大，改革后的工资水平在一定程度上对地方政府收入、垄断权力等地方政府特征的反应更加敏感。然而，估计改革的数值影响相当小。
The public sectors in the Scandinavian countries have been prominent examples of centralized wage-setting systems. In Norway, more room for local flexibility was implemented by a wage frame system introduced in 1990 in which the national wage scale system merely works like a minimum wage system. We analyze the effect of this reform using a unique database where we can track employees and their local government over time and explore the consequences of controlling for fixed individual effects and fixed employer effects. We find that the wage dispersion increased across local governments after 1990, and that wages to some extent became more responsive to local government income, monopsony power and other local government characteristics after the reform. However, the numerical effects of the reform are estimated to be quite small.