Siminski, Peter - School of Accounting, Economics, and Finance, … - 2008
This paper estimates the average Australian public sector … wage premium. It includes a detailed critical review of the methods available to address this issue. The chosen approach is a quasi-differenced panel data model, estimated by the Generalised Method of Moments, which has many advantages over other methods and has not been used before for this topic. I find a positive average public sector ….001). No evidence is found to suggest that the public sector has an equalising effect on the wages of its workers. …