TY - BOOK ID - 85504047 TI - Public Wage Bills in the Middle East and Central Asia AU - Tamirisa, Natalia. AU - Duenwald, Christoph. AU - International Monetary Fund. PY - 2018 SN - 1484337964 1484337921 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Wages KW - Fiscal policy KW - Tax policy KW - Taxation KW - Economic policy KW - Finance, Public KW - Compensation KW - Departmental salaries KW - Earnings KW - Pay KW - Remuneration KW - Salaries KW - Wage-fund KW - Wage rates KW - Working class KW - Income KW - Labor costs KW - Compensation management KW - Cost and standard of living KW - Prices KW - Government policy KW - Aggregate Human Capital KW - Aggregate Labor Productivity KW - Economic theory KW - Employment KW - Expenditure KW - Government wage bill KW - Income economics KW - Incomes Policy KW - Intergenerational Income Distribution KW - Labor KW - Labour KW - Price Policy KW - Public employment KW - Public finance & taxation KW - Public Finance KW - Public sector wages KW - Unemployment KW - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General KW - Saudi Arabia UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85504047 AB - Analysis of policies for managing public sector wage bills in the Middle East and Central Asia region. While some work has been done recently at the Fund on issues related to government employment and compensation, to our knowledge, this is the first study to systematically examine, with a focus on the Middle East and Central Asia region, the recent trends and drivers of public wage bills in the region and to identify key policy implications. ER -