This study examines the predictions of the theory of incentives, under which wage that is less sensitive to level of performance or skills attracts lower quality employees, while wage that is more sensitive to these factors attracts higher quality employees. The distribution of wage in the...

This research examines whether there is a gap in wages between women and men starting to work in the public sector, and if so — what the reasons are for the gap and how it developed over the past 16 years. The research shows that at the start of the period a significant wage gap existed in...

The paper examines the wage gap between women and men in the public sector during their entire careers. An analysis of cross-sectional data shows that the women-men wage ratio decreases monotonically until age 50. An analysis of panel data indicates that the gap is due largely to the fact that...