Understanding the public sector pay gap

Campos, Maria Manuel; Depalo, Domenico; Papapetrou, Evangelia; Pérez, Javier J.; Ramos, Roberto

doi:10.1186/s40173-017-0086-0

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“…Public workers tend to make less in wages when adjusting for education. However they have other intangible benefits such as increased job security (Bellante, Link, & Bellante, 2014;Campos, Depalo, Papapetrou, & Ramos, 2015;Cohen & Duberley, 2015;Frank & Lewis, 2004).…”

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The role of commitment on the effect of public workers’ OCBO on in-role performance

Indartono¹,

Faraz²

2019

AMP

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Public workers have requirement and characteristics of public jobs are differed from the private ones. It is likely to be more related on political issues. They have to adjust their work orientations in different regimes obligations. They will play different behaviors and attitudes on their jobs. Hence it is important to investigate the effect of their behavior on their attitudes. The services theory could make more academic alternative to solve the problems of the complex service of public workes. OCBO is suggested to be represented to the service theory. However, stronger worker-institution attachment are able to achieve higher work performance. Accordinglythis study is aimed to explore the various roles of commitment on the effect of Organizational citizenship behavior-organization (OCBO) on Public Workers' in-role performance. The commitment of public workers is investigated as the mediation of the effect of Organizational citizenship behavior-organization (OCBO) on Public Workers' in-role performance.University staffs are employed to this research. The findings show that OCBO is significantly has an effect on their performance. The Affective, normative and continuance commitment have different roles on the effect of OCBO on inrole performance. The emotional attachment plays a significant role on OCBO rather than feeling of obligation to create stronger effect of OCBO on in-role performance. Public workers are likely to show their emotional attachment at work rather than their feeling of obligation. The high political issues are more regarded as an investment orientation rather the feeling obligation to the regime. The feeling obligation is accepted when investment orientation and emotion attachment is reached. The implications and future research are discussed.

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Section: Differences Working In Public and Private Institutionsmentioning

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The role of commitment on the effect of public workers’ OCBO on in-role performance

Indartono¹,

Faraz²

2019

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“…Using a broad sample of OECD countries Campos, Depalo, Papapetrou, Perez, and Ramos (2017) show that size and composition of the public sector contribute in explaining the cross-country variation in the public sector wage premium. They argue that countries with lower shares of government employees should also have higher public sector wage premium.…”

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“…He argues that since homogenous public sector wages need to be attractive in the highly productive regions, the same wage results in a high public sector wage premium in less productive regions. Campos et al (2017) show that countries with more stringent employment protection tend to have higher public sector wage premiums. They argue that higher public sector wages are needed to offset better (safer) conditions in the private sector.…”

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“…When choosing the set of covariates which might determine the volatility of the public sector wage premium we follow Campos et al (2017) who highlight main arguments on why public sector wage premium might differ from country-to-country: (a) differences in the size of the public sector; (b) differences in wage setting institutions and practices; and (c) fiscal consolidation efforts.…”

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Public Sector Wage Premium and Output Volatility in the European Union

Vilerts

2018

Business, Management and Education

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This study seeks to uncover the role played by the public sector wage premium in explaining the output volatility. Furthermore, the study also explores the factors that might substantiate the cross-country differences in the volatility of the public sector wage premium. Using cross-sectional regression analysis for the European Union countries, the findings indicate that more volatile public sector wage premium is associated with higher fluctuations in the private sector employment and less stable growth. Findings also suggest that volatility of the public sector wage premium tends to be larger in countries with smaller governments and in countries where collective bargaining is the predominant regime for public sector wage setting.

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“…Despite the severity of wage cuts, the question on the appropriateness of the structure and level of public sector wages was often neglected in the midst of discussions on fiscal consolidation. In the last few years, however, there has been a growing interest in the interaction between wages in public and private sectors (Campos, Depalo, Papapetrou, Perez, & Ramos, 2017;European Commission, 2014;Holm-Hadulla, Kamath, Lamo, Perez, & Schuknecht, 2010).…”

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The public–private sector wage gap in Latvia

Vilerts

2018

Baltic Journal of Economics

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This study investigates the public-private sector wage gap in Latvia using microdata from the labour force survey. The severity of public sector wage cuts employed as a response to the economic crisis and subsequent recovery provides a test bed to analyse whether and how the public-private sector wage gap has adjusted after consolidation-driven wage cuts. Findings reveal that the observed wage gap is slightly in favour of the public sector; however, once differences in individual characteristics and selection effects are considered, results point to a private sector wage premium. Findings also suggest that the private sector wage premium has increased since the pre-crisis period. A significant private sector wage premium raises doubts on whether a system that is reliant on discretionary fiscal measures is efficient enough in eliminating unwarranted differences in wage. In particular, whether a readjustment process of public sector wages works after consolidation-driven wage cuts. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Understanding the public sector pay gap

Cited by 27 publications

References 31 publications

The role of commitment on the effect of public workers’ OCBO on in-role performance

The role of commitment on the effect of public workers’ OCBO on in-role performance

Public Sector Wage Premium and Output Volatility in the European Union

The public–private sector wage gap in Latvia

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