Wage Determination in the Public Sector [electronic resource]: A France/Italy Comparison No. 21 /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Organisation for Economic Co operation and DevelopmentContent Provider
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentContent Provider
Guillotin, Yves.
Lucifora, Claudio.
Paris : OECD Publishing,
1998.
Traditionally, pay analysis in the public sector has been based on cross section data, such as average or median wages. This study differs in that micro longitudinal data are used to explain and compare pay determination in the French and Italian civil services. Based on examples, the report presents different readings obtained from aggregate data and individual longitudinal data. It focuses on the weight of various components of human capital -- gender, age, year of birth, seniority, educational level -- on trends in civil servants' pay throughout working life. This type of analysis sheds new light in the area of human resource management in the civil service and, in particular, may be seen as a key tool for analysing gender pay discrimination.
Executive summary  -- Introduction -- Institutional features and recent reforms in France and Italy -- The case of France -- The case of Italy  -- II. Evolution of pay and employment  -- The case of France  -- The case of Italy -- Chapter 1. Data sets: a description -- I. France -- II. Italy  -- Chapter 2. The structure and dynamics of wages -- I. Wage growth and distribution -- Different approaches -- The Italian case -- The French case -- II. The evolution of the wage structure by socio-economic group  -- III. Patterns of wage differentials by sub-sector in Italy -- IV. Patterns of wage differentials by occupation in France -- Chapter 3. Age earnings profiles  -- I. Age earnings profiles by cohort  -- Chapter 4. An analysis of the gender wage gap  -- I. Analysis of variance -- II. Closing the gap: an econometric analysis  -- Estimation of the gender wage differential  -- Chapter 5. Concluding remarks  -- References
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Traditionally, pay analysis in the public sector has been based on cross section data, such as average or median wages. This study differs in that micro longitudinal data are used to explain and compare pay determination in the French and Italian civil services. Based on examples, the report presents different readings obtained from aggregate data and individual longitudinal data. It focuses on the weight of various components of human capital -- gender, age, year of birth, seniority, educational level -- on trends in civil servants' pay throughout working life. This type of analysis sheds new light in the area of human resource management in the civil service and, in particular, may be seen as a key tool for analysing gender pay discrimination.
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