TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Magejo, Prudence
AU  - Benhura, Miracle
        TI  - A Detailed Decomposition Analysis of the Public-Private Sector Wage Gap in South Africa
        PY  - 2015/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 9271
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp9271
        AB  - The present study examines the public-private sector wage gap in South Africa using individual cross section data for 2000-7. Results from unconditional quantile regressions and generalised Oaxaca-Blinder type decompositions show that the wage gap is inverted-U shaped across the wage distribution. The 'composition' effect is more important than the 'price' effect at the bottom of the distribution while the opposite applies at the top. Key factors underpinning the 'composition' effect are unionisation, industry of employment and education, while those associated with the 'price' effect are education, race and occupation.
        KW  - public sector
KW  - wage gap
KW  - recentered influence function
KW  - decomposition
        ER  -