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The Public Sector Pay Gap in France, Great Britain and Italy Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related research | Statistics Claudio Lucifora ()
Dominique Meurs ()
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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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Article Paper C. Lucifora & D. Meurs, 2004.
"The Public Sector Pay Gap in France, Great Britain and Italy ,"
Working Papers ERMES
0403, ERMES, University Paris 2.
[Downloadable!] Lucifora, Claudio & Meurs, Dominique, 2004.
"The Public Sector Pay Gap in France, Great Britain and Italy ,"
IZA Discussion Papers
1041, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
[Downloadable!] Find related papers by JEL classification: J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials J45 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Public Sector Labor Markets C14 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: General - - - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods
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