@techreport{Heitmuller2004Public,
abstract = {The public-private sector wage gap in Scotland in 2000 is analysed using the extension
sample of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). Employing an endogenous switching
model, and testing for double sample selection from the participation decision and sector
choice, the unadjusted wage gap is shown to be 10 per cent for males and 24 per cent for
females. For males this is mainly due to differences in productive characteristics and
selectivity. For females the picture is more ambiguous. Findings also suggest that there
exists a substantial wage premium for male private sector employees. While there is no
evidence of a sample selection bias for females, the sector choice of males is systematically
correlated with unobservables. Furthermore, the structural switching regression indicates that
expected wage differentials between sectors are an important driving force for sectoral
assignment.},
author = {Axel Heitm\"{u}ller},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {J71; C24; J31; 330; wage differentials; endogenous switching; double sample selection; decomposition; Lohnstruktur; Besoldung; Privatwirtschaft; \"{O}ffentlicher Dienst; Sch\"{a}tzung; Schottland},
language = {eng},
number = {992},
title = {Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials in Scotland: An Endogenous Switching Model},
type = {IZA Discussion paper series},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20227},
year = {2004}
}
