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Civil Servants’ Salary Structure

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  • Faiz Bilquees

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The paper looks at the trends in nominal and real salaries of the Federal Government employees over the period 1990-2006. It examines the structural defects in the existing salary structure and the anomalies in the allowances structure to show that appropriate remuneration for the civil servants requires serious and urgent consideration. The widening gap in the emoluments of government employees versus the public sector corporations and private sector employees has a strong bearing on the motivation and ability to work. The paper makes serious recommendations to overhaul the existing structure of salaries and perks to make the public sector employment competitive and cost-effective.

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  • Faiz Bilquees, 2006. "Civil Servants’ Salary Structure," Microeconomics Working Papers 22185, East Asian Bureau of Economic Research.
    • Handle: RePEc:eab:microe:22185
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    Keywords

    nominal and real salaries; salary; public sector;
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    JEL classification:

    • D00 - Microeconomics - - General - - - General
    • D30 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - General
    • D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution

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