TY  - UNPD
A1  - Barton, Nicholas
A1  - Bold, Tessa
A1  - Sandefur, Justin
T1  - Measuring rents from public employment : regression discontinuity evidence from Kenya
T2  - Working Paper ; 457
N2  - Public employees in many developing economies earn much higher wages than similar privatesector 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.
T3  - Working paper / Center for Global Development - 457 
KW  - civil servants
KW  - teachers
KW  - public sector wages
KW  - wage gap
KW  - motivation
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/44377
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-443777
UR  - https://www.cgdev.org/publication/measuring-rents-public-employment-regression-discontinuity-evidence-kenya
N1  - The Center for Global Development is an independent, nonprofit policy research organization dedicated to reducing global poverty and inequality and to making globalization work for the poor. Use and dissemination of this Working Paper is encouraged; however, reproduced copies may not be used for commercial purposes. Further usage is permitted under the terms of the Creative Commons License.
IS  - Working Paper 457
PB  - Center for Global Development
CY  - Washington, DC
ER  -