THE PUBLIC SECTOR PAY GAP IN FRANCE, GREAT BRITAIN AND ITALY

The paper explores the effect of large-scale privatization of public sector activities on public-private sector pay differential, for groups of workers according to educational qualification on average and across the pay distribution in Serbia, from 2004 until 2008. The paper finds that both unskilled and skilled men and women in the public sector saw significant improvements in their financial position relative to their private sector counterparts with the progress of the economic transition. The results showed that the size of the public sector pay premium declines both with higher educational level and higher percentile of earnings distribution. This indicates, between and within groups, the inequality-reducing feature of the public sector pay determination.

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Understanding the Public Sector Pay Gap

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.2712629 ◽

2016 ◽

Cited By ~ 46

Author(s):

maria campos ◽

Domenico Depalo ◽

Evangelia Papapetrou ◽

Javier J. Peerez ◽

Roberto Ramos

Keyword(s):

Public Sector ◽

Pay Gap ◽

The Public

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The UK Gender Pay Gap 1997-2015: What Is the Role of the Public Sector?

Industrial Relations A Journal of Economy and Society ◽

10.1111/irel.12208 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 57 (2) ◽

pp. 296-319 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Melanie Jones ◽

Gerry Makepeace ◽

Victoria Wass

Keyword(s):

Public Sector ◽

Gender Pay Gap ◽

Pay Gap ◽

The Public ◽

The Uk

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‘Positive direct rule’: economic policy

No Solution ◽

10.7228/manchester/9780719096402.003.0009 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

S.C. Aveyard

Keyword(s):

Economic Policy ◽

United Kingdom ◽

Great Britain ◽

Public Sector ◽

Northern Ireland ◽

Labour Government ◽

The Public ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

The Uk ◽

Positive Direct

This chapter looks at economic policy in Northern Ireland in the context of severe economic difficulties experienced by the UK as a whole. It shows how the Labour government sought to shield Northern Ireland from economic realities because of the conflict, increasing public expenditure and desperately seeking industrial investment. The level of desperation in this endeavour is illustrated through examples such as Harland & Wolff’s shipyards and the DeLorean Motor Company. The experience of the 1970s, and particularly under the Labour government, set the pattern for the following decades with a steadily increasing subvention from the rest of the United Kingdom and a growing dependence on the public sector, all at a time when the opposite trend took place in Great Britain.

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Gender wage differences in the selected Czech public sector company

Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis ◽

10.11118/actaun201260070081 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 60 (7) ◽

pp. 81-88

Author(s):

Veronika Hedija ◽

Petr Musil

Keyword(s):

Public Sector ◽

Wage Discrimination ◽

Gender Pay Gap ◽

The European Union ◽

Wage Differences ◽

Pay Gap ◽

Men And Women ◽

The Public ◽

Root Cause ◽

Different Characteristics

The issue of wage disparity between men and women belongs to the current and widely discussed topics. The attention given to this subject also reflects the fact that the issue of the equality between women and men and non-discrimination by gender is incorporated in the law of the European Union. A number of studies are devoted to the gender wage disparities and the root cause of wage differences in the Czech Republic, however, only few of these deal with the gender wage differentials in the public sector. It is exactly this issue, which is discussed in this article, its aim being to identify the extent of the gender pay gap in the selected Czech public sector company. The article concentrates on finding the main causes for the existence of wage differences between men and women and determining whether the company inclines to wage discrimination against women. The Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition is used to define, which part of the gender pay gap can be attributed to the different characteristics of men and women and which part stays unexplained. It is this unexplained part that can be the result of wage discrimination against women.

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The Public and Private Sector Pay Gap in Pakistan: A Quantile Regression Analysis

The Pakistan Development Review ◽

10.30541/v44i3pp.271-306 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 44 (3) ◽

pp. 271-306 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

Asma Hyder ◽

Barry Reilly

Keyword(s):

Public Sector ◽

Private Sector ◽

Quantile Regression ◽

Labour Force ◽

Wage Distribution ◽

Pay Gap ◽

Public And Private ◽

The Public ◽

Quantile Regression Analysis ◽

Public And Private Sector

This paper examines the magnitude of public/private wage differentials in Pakistan using data drawn from the 2001-02 Pakistan Labour Force Survey. As in many other countries, public sector workers in Pakistan tend both to have higher average pay and education levels as compared to their private sector counterparts. In addition, the public sector in Pakistan has both a more compressed wage distribution and a smaller gender pay gap than that prevailing in the private sector. Our empirical analysis suggests that about two-fifths of the raw differential in average hourly wages between the two sectors is accounted for by differentials in average characteristics. The estimated public sector mark-up, ceteris paribus, is of the order of 49 percent and is substantial by the standards of developed economies. The quantile regression estimates suggest that the mark-up was found to decline monotonically with movement up the conditional wage distribution. In particular, the premium at the 10th percentile was estimated at 92 percent as compared to a more modest 20 percent at the 90th percentile.

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The Growth of Private Practice in Occupational Therapy in Great Britain

British Journal of Occupational Therapy ◽

10.1177/030802269205500412 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 55 (4) ◽

pp. 157-161 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Anne Cossar

Keyword(s):

Great Britain ◽

Cost Effectiveness ◽

Public Sector ◽

Occupational Therapy ◽

Private Sector ◽

Private Practice ◽

Occupational Therapists ◽

The Public ◽

Competitive Tendering ◽

Therapy Services

By means of a questionnaire issued to the 65 therapists registered on the COT Private Practice Directory 1989, a study gathered demographic details and information regarding the growth of private practice, diversity of practice and referral sources. It appeared that trends emerging amongst occupational therapists in the private sector might be pre-empting trends in the occupational therapy profession in general. With decreasing resources and the introduction of competitive tendering in the public sector, more therapists might have to re-examine their services in terms of cost-effectiveness. It seemed that colleagues in the private sector had already rationalised their services in order to compete in the marketplace. Those skills that were highly visible, in the physical, domiciliary and litigation areas of work, predominated. The findings have implications for those occupational therapy services presently without proven effectiveness which require urgent research to prevent their further decline.

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