The Welsh economy has undergone rapid structural change in recent years.This paper uses data from the New Earnings Survey to examine how earnings in Waleschanged relative to those of Great Britain between 1975 and 1994. There are five mainfindings. First, earnings of workers in Wales have...

The paper examines the trend in public sector – private sector wagedifferentials in the 1980s and 1990s, using a variety of econometricmethods...br>