Hyder, Asma and Reilly, Barry (2005) The public sector pay gap in Pakistan: a quantile regression analysis. PRUS Working Papers (33). Poverty Research Unit, University of Sussex, Sussex, UK.
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This paper examines the magnitude of public/private wage differentials in Pakistan using data drawn from the 2001/02 Labour Force Survey. As in many other countries, public sector workers in Pakistan tend both to have higher average pay and education levels 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 by differentials in average characteristics. The estimated ceteris paribus public sector ‘mark-up’ is of the order of 49% 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% compared to a more modest 20% at the 90th percentile.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/PRU/wps/wp33.pdf |
| Additional Information: | © 2005 the authors |
| Divisions: | Asia Centre |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
| JEL classification: | C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C1 - Econometric and Statistical Methods: General > C14 - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J3 - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs > J31 - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials by Skill, Training, Occupation, etc. J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J4 - Particular Labor Markets > J45 - Public Sector Labor Markets |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Mar 2009 11:06 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2024 19:56 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/23348 |
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