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Assessing the wage gap between public and private sector employees in Ireland: issues, evidence and challenges
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posted on 2019-02-27, 14:57 authored by DARRAGH FLANNERYDARRAGH FLANNERY, THOMAS TURNERTHOMAS TURNEROver recent years pay levels in the public sector of the economy have come under increasing scrutiny. This paper provides an
assessment of the key issues and challenges central to a comparison of wage levels in the private and public sector in Ireland.
A review of the extant studies that have employed multivariate analysis to estimate the gap between public and private sector
wages in Ireland indicates a wage premium in favour of public sector workers. However the actual magnitude of the earnings
gap is difficult to accurately assess as the size of the premium varies markedly across these various studies. A number of
possible options are suggested to guide the development of a fair system for assessing wage levels in the public sector.
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Irish Journal of Management;37 (1), pp. 51-64Publisher
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