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

Claudio Lucifora () and Dominique Meurs

No 1041, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: quantile regression; public sector; wage differentials (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 J31 J45 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2004-03
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Published - published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2003, 52(1), 43-59

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Journal Article: THE PUBLIC SECTOR PAY GAP IN FRANCE, GREAT BRITAIN AND ITALY (2006)
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