Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/99035 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8158
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The article examines public-private sector wage differentials in Spain using microdata from the Structure of Earnings Survey (Encuesta de Estructura Salarial). When applying various decomposition techniques, we find that it is important to distinguish by gender and type of contract. Our results also highlight the presence of a positive wage premium for public sector workers that can be partially explained by their better endowment of characteristics, in particular by the characteristics of the establishment where they work. The wage premium is greater for female and fixed-term employees and falls across the wage distribution, being negative for more highly skilled workers.
Subjects: 
public-private sector wage gap
wage distribution
matched employer-employee data
decomposition methods
JEL: 
C2
E3
J3
J4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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