The Public Sector Pay Gap in France, Great Britain and Italy

By C. Lucifora, D. Meurs. Social Science Research Network, 2006

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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.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics

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Citations in the corpus

• The Public Sector Pay Gap in a Selection of Euro Area Countries (2011, unknown): “Lucifora and Meurs (2006) examine the public private pay determination for three European countries, France, Great Britain and Italy in 1998 and show that the low-skilled public sector workers are paid on average higher wages with respect to their private sector counterparts, whilst the reverse is…”
• The Misallocation of Pay and Productivity in the Public Sector: Evidence from the Labor Market for Teachers (2017, unknown): “A literature from the OECD typically finds public sector premia of 5 to 15%, with some portion of the gap explained by differential motivation, sector-specific productivity and the selection of workers (Disney and Gosling, 1998; Dustmann and Van Soest, 1998; and Lucifora and Meurs, 2006).”