This communiqué is based on the following paper: Public Sector Wages in Alberta: How do these Compare to Other … the wages and salaries of public sector workers with private sector workers with similar characteristics, such as …-of-the-art econometric techniques and data on individuals' earnings from Statistics Canada's Labour Force Survey from January 2006 to …

percent — almost double the rate of growth in the rest of Canada. Wages, previously roughly at par with the rest of the …, public sector salaries are a good place to start. The authors make their case using detailed Statistics Canada data, throwing …

? How do public sector wages in these other jurisdictions compare to those in Alberta? The master files of the Labour Force …. The results show that – while premiums vary widely by occupation – Alberta public sector wages are not outliers compared …

public wages are determined. Rigid public sector wages lead to perverse effects on private employment, while flexible public … wages lead to a stabilizing effect. Public employment also has important productivity and redistributive effects. …