Public Sector Pay and Regional Competitiveness: A First Look at Regional Public-Private Wage Differentials in Italy

Dell’Aringa, Carlo (), Claudio Lucifora () and Federica Origo ()
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Dell’Aringa, Carlo: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

No 1828, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper investigates regional public-private wage differentials in Italy. Following the recent wave of reforms that significantly changed wage setting and employment relations in both sectors – increasing decentralisation in collective bargaining and enforcing a "privatisation" of public sector employment contracts - we present new estimates of the public-private wage gap by geographical location. We report both 'standardised' public-private wage differentials, as well as estimates obtained using Geographically Weighted Regressions methods. We show that significant differences exist in public-private wage differentials across Italian regions, and that the latter can be partly explained by local labour market conditions affecting the private sector and only marginally the public sector. Differences in public-private wage differentials across regions are expected to determine several imbalances in terms of 'wait' unemployment and recruitment problems in the different areas.

Keywords: public-private wage differentials; regional labour market; geographically weighted regressions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 50 pages
Date: 2005-10
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Published - published in: Manchester School, 2007, 75 (4), 445-478

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Journal Article: PUBLIC SECTOR PAY AND REGIONAL COMPETITIVENESS. A FIRST LOOK AT REGIONAL PUBLIC–PRIVATE WAGE DIFFERENTIALS IN ITALY* (2007)
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