The Public Sector Pay Gap in France, Great Britain and Italy

We investigate public-private pay determination using French, British and Italian microdata. While traditional methods focus on parametric methods to estimate the public sector pay gap, in this paper, we use both non-parametric (kernel) and quantile regression methods to analyse the distribution of wages across sectors. We show that the public-private (hourly) wage differential is sensitive to the choice of quantile and that the pattern of premia varies with both gender and skill. In all countries the public sector is found to pay more low skilled workers with respect to the private sector, whilst the reverse is true for high skilled workers. The effects are more pronounced for females.

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Year of publication:	2004
Authors:	Lucifora, Claudio ; Meurs, Dominique
Publisher:	Bonn : Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Subject:	Lohnstruktur \| Öffentlicher Dienst \| Besoldung \| Privatwirtschaft \| Schätzung \| Frankreich \| Grossbritannien \| Italien \| wage differentials \| public sector \| quantile regression

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Series:	IZA Discussion paper series ; 1041
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	380764393 [GVK] hdl:10419/20276 [Handle]
Classification:	C14 - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods ; J45 - Public Sector Labor Markets ; J31 - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials by Skill, Training, Occupation, etc
Source:	EconStor