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wage growth. With respect to public sector wage growth, we find that it is influenced by fiscal conditions in addition to …
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The article examines public-private sector wage differentials in Spain using microdata from the Structure of Earnings … distinguish by gender and type of contract. Our results also highlight the presence of a positive wage premium for public sector … the establishment where they work. The wage premium is greater for female and fixed-term employees and falls across the …
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This paper studies the wage differentials between the public and private sectors in Spain, as well as its distribution … across different educational levels and by gender. To do so, the well-known Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition of mincerian wage … regressions is applied for both sectors, breaking down the (public-private) wage gap into a component explained by differences in …
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individuals who earn less than twice the minimum wage. Our estimate for the elasticity of gross labor earnings with respect to the …-tax schedule, combined with a short-term rigidity of the hourly taxable wage (i.e. the gross wage minus payroll taxes), casting …
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Recent controversy has surrounded the relative value of public and private sector remuneration. We define a comprehensive measure of Total Reward (TR) which includes not just pay, but pensions and other 'benefits in kind', evaluate it as the present value of the sum of all these payments over...
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Are public sector jobs better than private sector jobs? To answer this question, this paper investigates observed differences in job satisfaction between public- and private-sector workers and disentangles the effect of worker sorting from the one caused by sector-specific job characteristics. A...
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Using new linked employee-workplace data for Britain in 2004, we find that the nature of the public private pay gap differs between genders and that of the gender pay gap differs between sectors. The analysis shows that little none of the gender earnings gap in both the public and private sector...
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This paper examines wage differentials between public sector and private sector workers in Australia. After controlling … 5.1% percent more hourly wages than those in the private sector. The wage premium is slightly higher for females than … males. Using a panel data quantile regression model with fixed effects, we show that the positive wage effects of public …
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gender wage inequality is associated with higher shares of female workers, but not female managers …
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Public sector employees are often said to have excessive rates of absence from work. Using representative survey data for Germany, we indeed find absenteeism of employees to be higher in the public than the private sector. The differences in the incidence and days of absence showing up in...
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