Private and public sector wages in Bulgaria

Falaris, Evangelos M.

doi:10.1016/j.jce.2003.09.010

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“…For Europe, a number of studies chart and explain the public-private sector pay gap. These include (Petersen et al 1990) for Denmark, Hartog and Oosterbeek (1993) and Van Ophem (1993) for the Netherlands, Dustmann and Van Soest (1998) and Melly (2005) for Germany, Christofides and Pashardes (2002) for Cyprus, Bargain and Melly (2008) for France, Adamchik and Bedi (2000) and Fallaris (2004) for transition economies, and numerous authors for the UK (e.g. Rees and Shah (1995), Blackaby et al (1999), and Heitmueller (2006)).…”

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Exploring the public-private sector wage gap in European countries

Christofides

Michael

2013

IZA J Labor Stud

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We estimate the public-private sector pay gap for 27 European countries, using the 2008 EU SILC. The coefficients of conditional (on personal and job characteristics) public sector controls give a first impression on wage differences, while decompositions into explained and unexplained components (also accounting for selectivity) allow for a more complete analysis, which helps to identify possible causes of the gap. Regional patterns exist. Separate subsample decompositions based on age, education, gender and occupation, provide interesting insight regarding the pay structure of each country. Quantile decomposition analyses show that the public-private pay gap is, generally, negatively related to income quantiles. JEL classification: J31, J45, J48

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Exploring the public-private sector wage gap in European countries

Christofides

Michael

2013

IZA J Labor Stud

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“…Policy-related rationales for studying labor market segmentation issues are related to both efficiency, as illustrated by the literature on the public-private sector earnings gap in developing countries or economies in transition (Adamchik and Bedi 2000; Boeri and Terell 2002;Falaris 2004;Lokshin and Jovanovic 2003) and income inequality (Meng and Zhang 2001). A multi-tiered labor market in which wages are not only determined by skill differentials, but also by different institutional arrangements may have strong implications in terms of both labor allocation across sectors and income distribution among workers.…”

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Earnings Differentials between the Public and the Private Sectors in China: Explaining Changing Trends for Urban Locals in the 2000s

Démurger

2010

SSRN Journal

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This paper analyzes the changes in public-private sector earnings differentials for local residents in urban China between 2002 and 2007. We find that earnings gaps across ownership have been reducing during this period and that the convergence trend has been in favor of the private and semi-public sectors as opposed to the public sector. This is in sharp contrast to what occurred at the turn of the century, when employees of public administration and enterprises were found to enjoy a very much privileged situation. On the one hand, differences in endowments are found to play a growing role in explaining earnings differentials. On the other hand, although starting to become less an issue, segmentation across ownership remains important, especially for high-wage earners.

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“…Several articles used quantile regressions or rather mean regressions to investigate the gender wage differential in transition countries (Adamchik and Bedi, 2000;Newell and Reilly, 2001;Falaris, 2004) and in particular on Serbian labour market (Krstić and Reilly, 2000;Lokshin and Jovanovic, 2003;Krstić et al 2007;Ognjenović, 2009). …”

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confidence: 99%