The Public Sector Pay Gap in a Selection of Euro Area Countries in the Pre-crisis Period

Raffaela Giordano (), Manuel Pereira, Domenico Depalo, Bruno Eugène (), Evangelia Papapetrou (), Javier Pérez, Lukas Reiss () and Mojca Roter ()
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Bruno Eugène: Banque Nationale de Belgique
Evangelia Papapetrou: Bank of Greece
Lukas Reiss: Oesterreichische Nationalbank
Mojca Roter: Banka Slovenije

Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics, 2014, vol. 214, issue 3, 11-34

Abstract: We investigate the public-private wage differentials in ten euro area countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain) in the pre-crisis period (2004-2007). To account for differences in employment characteristics between the two sectors, we focus on micro data taken from EU-SILC. The results point to a conditional pay differential in favour of our public sector proxy that is generally higher for women, at the low tail of the wage distribution, in the Education and the Public administration sectors rather than in the Health sector. Notable differences emerge across countries, with Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain exhibiting higher public sector premia than other countries

Keywords: Public sector wages; public-private pay gap; wage equations. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 J45 O52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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