 Pay Determination in the Public Service: An International ComparisonCarlo Dell’Aringa and Nicole Lanfranchi Chapter 2 in Public Sector Pay Determination in the European Union, 1999, pp 29-69 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract In recent years almost all industrialised countries have adopted specific measures in order to increase efficiency and to reduce costs in the public sector and, as labour cost is the most important component of total cost, specific policies have been adopted to increase labour productivity and to keep the growth of public employees’ pay under rigid control. One of these policies which is of particular interest is the decentralisation of the pay determination system. Some countries have decentralised the system of pay and other working conditions for public sector employees both at local and at single-administrative unit level, while other countries have maintained their traditional centralised system. An interesting question is, therefore, whether the countries that have reformed their pay determination systems in order to achieve greater decentralisation have actually succeeded in diminishing unit labour costs — and, more generally increasing the efficiency of their public administration. Keywords: Private Sector; Public Sector; Collective Bargaining; Industrial Relation; Wage Bill (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-14946-9_2 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-14946-9_2 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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