Public–private wage differentials in euro-area countries: evidence from quantile decomposition analysis

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• 作者：Domenico Depalo ; Raffaela Giordano ; Evangelia Papapetrou
• 关键词：Public employment ; Wage differentials ; Wage determination
• 刊名：Empirical Economics
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：November 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：49
• 期：3
• 页码：985-1015
• 全文大小：986 KB
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• 作者单位：Domenico Depalo (1)
  Raffaela Giordano (2)
  Evangelia Papapetrou (3)
  
  1. Bank of Italy, Via Nazionale, 91, 00184, Rome, Italy
  2. The World Bank, 1818 H St. NW, Washington, DC, 20433, USA
  3. Bank of Greece and University of Athens, 21 El. Venizelos Ave., 10250, Athens, Greece
  
• 刊物主题：Econometrics; Statistics for Business/Economics/Mathematical Finance/Insurance; Economic Theory;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1435-8921

文摘

We evaluate the public–private wage differential for men in ten euro-area countries in the period 2004-007. Using the most recent methodologies on a Mincerian equation, we assess how much of the differential depends on differences in endowments and how much on differences in the remuneration of such skills. For the first time, we look at the contribution of specific covariates at different quantiles of the wage distribution and decompose the variance into an explained and an unexplained component. We find that the pay gap is often decreasing over the distribution and that it is mostly determined by higher endowments in the upper tail of the wage distribution and by higher returns of such endowments at the low tail, with considerable heterogeneity across countries. We further find that the wage distribution in the public sector is more compressed than in the private sector in some countries. This is the result, for all countries, of more dispersed distributions of endowments in the public sector and of returns in the private sector. Keywords Public employment Wage differentials Wage determination