A Distributional Analysis of the Public-Private Wage Differential in India

Mehtabul Azam and Nishith Prakash

No 5132, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We investigate the public-private wage differential in India using nationally representative micro data. While the existing literature focuses on average wage differential, we study the differences in the wage distributions. The raw wage differential between public and private sector is positive across the entire distribution for both genders irrespective of area of residence. A quantile regression based decomposition analysis reveals that the differences in observed characteristics (covariate effect) account for only a small part of the wage differential at lower quantiles, but a larger part at higher quantiles. At the very top of the distribution, covariate effect account for a majority of the observed wage differential.

Keywords: quantile regression; public-private wage differential; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J3 J45 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2010-08
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Published - substantially revised version published in: Labour, 2015, 29 (4), 394–414

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