TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Lucifora, Claudio
AU  - Meurs, Dominique
        TI  - The Public Sector Pay Gap in France, Great Britain and Italy
        PY  - 2004/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 1041
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp1041
        AB  - We investigate public-private pay determination using French, British and Italian microdata.
While traditional methods focus on parametric methods to estimate the public sector pay gap,
in this paper, we use both non-parametric (kernel) and quantile regression methods to
analyse the distribution of wages across sectors. We show that the public-private (hourly)
wage differential is sensitive to the choice of quantile and that the pattern of premia varies
with both gender and skill. In all countries the public sector is found to pay more low skilled
workers with respect to the private sector, whilst the reverse is true for high skilled workers.
The effects are more pronounced for females.
        KW  - quantile regression
KW  - public sector
KW  - wage differentials
        ER  -