The Public Sector Pay Premium and Compensating Differentials in the New Zealand Labour Market

John Gibson ()

Working Papers in Economics from University of Waikato, Department of Economics

Abstract: In this note, propensity score matching (PSM) methods are applied to data from the 2005 International Social Survey Program Work Orientations (ISSP-WO) survey to examine the public sector pay premium in New Zealand. Taking account of a wide range of worker characteristics and attitudes, job attributes, and the effects that jobs have on workers and their family life, there appears to be a pay premium from working in the public sector of 17 to 21 percent.

Keywords: compensating differentials; propensity score matching; public sector (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2007
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