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- Title
THE PUBLIC SECTOR PAY GAP IN FRANCE, GREAT BRITAIN AND ITALY.
- Authors
Lucifora, Claudio; Meurs, Dominique
- 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 analyze 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 to low skilled workers with respect to the private sector, whilst the reverse is true for high skilled workers. When comparing results across countries, we find that where pay formation is more regulated (i.e. as in France and Italy) the public sector pay gap is smaller; whilst where market factors play a larger role in pay determination (i.e. as in Great Britain) the public sector pay gap is larger—particularly in the lower part of the wage distribution—and females are much better off in the public sector as compared to the private sector.
- Subjects
ITALY; WAGE differentials; PRIVATE sector; PUBLIC sector; ECONOMIC structure; WAGES; PAY equity; FRENCH economic policy; BRITISH economic policy; ECONOMIC policy
- Publication
Review of Income & Wealth, 2006, Vol 52, Issue 1, p43
- ISSN
0034-6586
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1475-4991.2006.00175.x