TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Ramos, Raul
AU  - Sanromá, Esteban
AU  - Simón, Hipólito
        TI  - Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials by Type of Contract: Evidence from Spain
        PY  - 2014/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8158
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp8158
        AB  - The article examines public-private sector wage differentials in Spain using microdata from the Structure of Earnings Survey (Encuesta de Estructura Salarial). When applying various decomposition techniques, we find that it is important to distinguish by gender and type of contract. Our results also highlight the presence of a positive wage premium for public sector workers that can be partially explained by their better endowment of characteristics, in particular by the characteristics of the establishment where they work. The wage premium is greater for female and fixed-term employees and falls across the wage distribution, being negative for more highly skilled workers.
        KW  - public-private sector wage gap
KW  - decomposition methods
KW  - matched employer-employee data
KW  - wage distribution
        ER  -