This article discusses the Brazilian civil service evolution and patterns of change in each level and branch of government, from 1986 to 2017. Our analysis covers the total personnel, schooling, and distribution by sex, mean and median wages as well as the total government spending on active...

This article discusses the Brazilian civil service evolution and patterns of change in each level and branch of government, from 1986 to 2017. Our analysis covers the total personnel, schooling, and distribution by sex, mean and median wages as well as the total government spending on active...

This study investigates the wage gap between the public and private sectors in Brazil. The analysis is carried out with 2009 microdata from the Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios (PNAD) and it takes account its complex sample design. The main contribution of this study is the...

The empirical evidence related to the public-private wage gap in Brazil indicates that workers from the Brazilian public sector earn, on average, higher wages than the private sector ones. This paper surveys three literatures related to this topic. First, it surveys the main studies related to...

The empirical evidence related to the public-private wage gap in Brazil indicates that workers from the Brazilian public sector earn, on average, higher wages than the private sector ones. This paper surveys three literatures related to this topic. First, it surveys the main studies related to...

This study investigates the wage gap between the public and private sectors in Brazil. The analysis is carried out with 2009 microdata from the Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios (PNAD) and it takes account its complex sample design. The main contribution of this study is the...

Os trabalhadores brasileiros recebem melhores remunerações médias no setor público do que receberiam no setor privado. No entanto, há indícios de que essa situação não é homogênea entre as diversas carreiras públicas. O objetivo deste trabalho é buscar evidências empíricas de que...

We study the determinants of the public-private earnings gap for different levels of schooling of Brazilian workers. First, using the current earnings as the variable of interest, we estimate that less educated people receive higher earnings in the public sector (i.e., the earnings gap is...

Public servant wages represent a significant part of Brazilian state governments’ current expenses. Based on the literature, this paper has tried to identify which states practice efficient, compensatory or appropriation wage politics through the estimation of public-private wage...