Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35354 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3941
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The paper starts with discussing institutional framework for public sector wage setting in Russia. Given that individual choice of the sector is endogenous to wages, the authors recommend alternative econometric techniques for the public-private wage gap estimation. Applying switching regression that allows correcting for non-random sector selection, the paper provides wage gap estimates for various demographic, occupational, and territorial population subgroups. As it is shown, there is significant cross-group variation in the wage gap. The paper concludes that to eliminate the negative gap wages in the public sector should be linked to the private sector wages at the regional level.
Subjects: 
Public sector
JEL: 
J31
J45
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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