Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/44242 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5132
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We investigate the public-private wage differential in India using nationally representative micro data. While the existing literature focuses on average wage differential, we study the differences in the wage distributions. The raw wage differential between public and private sector is positive across the entire distribution for both genders irrespective of area of residence. A quantile regression based decomposition analysis reveals that the differences in observed characteristics (covariate effect) account for only a small part of the wage differential at lower quantiles, but a larger part at higher quantiles. At the very top of the distribution, covariate effect account for a majority of the observed wage differential.
Subjects: 
quantile regression
public-private wage differential
India
JEL: 
J3
J45
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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