Convergence of public and private enterprise wages in a transition economy: Evidence from a distributional decomposition in Vietnam, 2002–2014

Tien Vu and Hiroyuki Yamada

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Abstract: We examine the transition of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Vietnam from a wage perspective by decomposing the difference in wage distributions between SOE employees and non-SOE employees during the period 2002–2014. In 2002, SOE employees enjoyed higher pay than non-SOE employees owing to characteristics difference and any factors other than either the price of skills or the characteristics difference, so-called residuals difference. University graduates were the main contributor to the endowments difference. However, we found that SOE pay schemes converged with those of non-SOEs by 2014, in terms of both the price of skills and residuals.

Keywords: Wage; wage decomposition; wage distribution; state-owned enterprises; transition; Vietnam (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J30 J45 O15 P31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-04-26
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Journal Article: Convergence of public and private enterprise wages in a transition economy: Evidence from a distributional decomposition in Vietnam, 2002–2014 (2020)
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