The Public Pay Gap in Britain: Small Differences That (Don't?) Matter
The existing literature on inequality between private and public sectors focuses on cross-section differences in earnings levels. Forward-looking agents, however, care about income and job mobility too, which we show are substantially different between the two sectors. Using data from the BHPS, we e...
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| Volume: | 117 |
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| Main Author: |
Fabien Postel-Vinay
Hélène Turon |
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
| Zielgruppe: |
Trade Academic |
| Place of publication: |
Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing 01.10.2007 Blackwell Publishing Ltd WILEY-BLACKWELL Wiley Subscription Services, Inc |
| published in: | The Economic journal (London) Vol. 117; no. 523; pp. 1460 - 1503 |
| Data of publication: | 20071001 |
| ISSN: |
0013-0133 1468-0297 |
| EISSN: |
1468-0297 |
| Discipline: | Economics |
| Bibliography: |
We thank three anonymous referees, Sonia Bhalotra, Richard Blundell, Simon Burgess, Guy Laroque, Jean‐Marc Robin, Jon Temple, David Winter, seminar participants at Bristol, CREST, Milan (joint Bocconi, Cattolica and Milan Universities seminar) and UCL, and conference participants at the 2005 Society for Economic Dynamics meeting (Budapest), the 2005 Econometric Society World Congress (London), the 2005 Work and Pensions Economics Group conference (York), the conference on Incentives in the Public Sector (Rotterdam) and the 2005 Public Economics UK Autumn Conference (Oxford) for useful feedback on this project. Special thanks are due to Edmund Cannon and Sarah Smith for patient explanations about the UK pension system. |
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| Database: | Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2007 Web of Knowledge Web of Science CrossRef Academic OneFile (A&I only) Database information Databases - DBIS |