Depalo, Domenico; Giordano, Raffaella - In: Giornale degli Economisti 70 (2011) 1, pp. 25-64
We investigate the public-private pay gap in Italy in the period 1998-2008. Under random sampling we estimate an average wage di_erential in favour of public sector workers of about 14% for women and 4% for men, lower at the high tail of the wage distribution and in the Northern regions. The...