Publication Date
1-3-2008
Recommended Citation
Siminski, Peter M., What Would the Average Public Sector Employee be Paid in the Private Sector?, Department of Economics, University of Wollongong, 2008.
https://ro.uow.edu.au/commwkpapers/188
Abstract
This paper estimates the average Australian public sector wage premium. It includes a detailed critical review of the methods available to address this issue. The chosen approach is a quasi‐differenced panel data model, estimated by the Generalised Method of Moments, which has many advantages over other methods and has not been used before for this topic. I find a positive average public sector wage premium for both sexes. The best estimates are 6.7% for men and 10.5% for women. The estimate is statistically significant for men (p = 0.024) and for women (p < 0.001). No evidence is found to suggest that the public sector has an equalising effect on the wages of its workers.
Publication Details
Siminski, P, What Would the Average Public Sector Employee be Paid in the Private Sector?, Working Paper 08-05, Department of Economics, University of Wollongong, 2008.