caa a22 4500 467895953 CHVBK 20180406152804.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00181-005-0024-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00181-005-0024-7 Local flexibility in wage setting: evidence from the Norwegian local public sector [Elektronische Daten] [Torberg Falch, Bjarne Strøm] 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. Springer-Verlag, 2006 Public sector labor market nationallicence Wage setting nationallicence Decentralization nationallicence Falch Torberg Department of Economics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7491, Trondheim, Norway aut Strøm Bjarne Department of Economics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7491, Trondheim, Norway aut Empirical Economics Springer-Verlag 31/1(2006-03-01), 113-142 0377-7332 31:1<113 2006 31 181 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-005-0024-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-005-0024-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Falch Torberg Department of Economics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7491, Trondheim, Norway aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Strøm Bjarne Department of Economics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7491, Trondheim, Norway aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Empirical Economics Springer-Verlag 31/1(2006-03-01), 113-142 0377-7332 31:1<113 2006 31 181 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer