TY - JOUR
T1 - Public-Private Sector Wage Gap in Australia
T2 - Variation along the Distribution
AU - Cai, Lixin
AU - Liu, Amy Y.C.
PY - 2011/6
Y1 - 2011/6
N2 - Previous research on public-private wage differentials in Australia has focused on the mean of the conditional wage distribution. Using six waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey, this study employs quantile regressions to examine whether the sectoral wage effect varies along the wage distribution. For females, public sector wage premiums are relatively stable for almost the entire distribution. For males, they decrease monotonically and are negative for the top half of the distribution. The decomposition results show that the observed differences in individuals and job characteristics explain a substantial proportion of the sectoral wage gap.
AB - Previous research on public-private wage differentials in Australia has focused on the mean of the conditional wage distribution. Using six waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey, this study employs quantile regressions to examine whether the sectoral wage effect varies along the wage distribution. For females, public sector wage premiums are relatively stable for almost the entire distribution. For males, they decrease monotonically and are negative for the top half of the distribution. The decomposition results show that the observed differences in individuals and job characteristics explain a substantial proportion of the sectoral wage gap.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-8543.2009.00773.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-8543.2009.00773.x
M3 - Article
SN - 0007-1080
VL - 49
SP - 362
EP - 390
JO - British Journal of Industrial Relations
JF - British Journal of Industrial Relations
IS - 2
ER -