Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20276 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1041
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We investigate public-private pay determination using French, British and Italian microdata. While traditional methods focus on parametric methods to estimate the public sector pay gap, in this paper, we use both non-parametric (kernel) and quantile regression methods to analyse the distribution of wages across sectors. We show that the public-private (hourly) wage differential is sensitive to the choice of quantile and that the pattern of premia varies with both gender and skill. In all countries the public sector is found to pay more low skilled workers with respect to the private sector, whilst the reverse is true for high skilled workers. The effects are more pronounced for females.
Subjects: 
wage differentials
public sector
quantile regression
JEL: 
C14
J45
J31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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