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A New Method for Estimating Public Sector Pay Premia: Evidence from Britain in the 1990's Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related research | Statistics Disney, Richard F
Gosling, Amanda
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This Paper looks at public sector pay in Britain. We present a novel instrument that exploits the variation in public sector status across individuals arising from the privatisation programme of the 1990s. We show formally that results that are estimated may thereby be robust to self-selection and measurement error, both of which are important and which bias cross-sectional estimates. Our results suggest that women in the public sector earn more then they could elsewhere, whilst, on average, men do not.
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Keywords: measurement error ; pay determination ; selection effects ; Other versions of this item:
Find related papers by JEL classification: J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
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