Christofides, Louis N.; Michael, Maria - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-53
We estimate the public-private sector pay gap for 27 European countries, using the 2008 EU SILC. The coefficients of … conditional (on personal and job characteristics) public sector controls give a first impression on wage differences, while … decomposition analyses show that the public-private pay gap is, generally, negatively related to income quantiles. …