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Public‐ and Private‐Sector Occupational Pay Structures
Author(s) -
HUNDLEY GREG
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-232x.1991.tb00796.x
Subject(s) - salary , wage , public sector , private sector , labour economics , differential (mechanical device) , sample (material) , government (linguistics) , business , wage share , work (physics) , efficiency wage , economics , demographic economics , economic growth , market economy , mechanical engineering , aerospace engineering , linguistics , chemistry , philosophy , engineering , economy , chromatography
Data from a representative sample of wage and salary workers are used to estimate wage equations that provide for direct estimates of the differences between public and private occupational pay structures. The results show that at the state and local levels of government in particular, the public/private wage differential tends to decline as occupational skill requirements increase. Public employees who work on jobs unique to the public sector are paid a wage premium. There is little support for the idea that degree of union coverage in the private sector affects public wages for an occupation.