Arbeitspapier

The public-private wage gap in Brazil

Recent changes in public employment in Brazil generate costs to workers that leave this sector. In this study we investigate the wage loss that leaving public employees may experience if they were absorbed by the private sector. Using microdata from the Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios of 1995, we calculate the gross and controlled wage gaps between the two sectors. The results show that both wage gaps are relatively high, although significantly lower for the second measure. The latter indicates the presence of important differences in the composition of the labor force between the two sectors. In fact, public employees tend to be on average better educated, older and have longer tenure than the workers in the private sector. Also, the study shows that there is a significant heterogeneity within the public sector: the wage gap is higher for federal public employees, decreasing for the state and municipal levels.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Discussion Paper ; No. 95

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Foguel, Miguel Nathan
Gill, Indermit Singh
Pinto de Mendonça, Rosane Silva
de Barros, Ricardo Paes
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for Applied Economic Research (ipea)
(wo)
Brasília
(wann)
2015

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Foguel, Miguel Nathan
  • Gill, Indermit Singh
  • Pinto de Mendonça, Rosane Silva
  • de Barros, Ricardo Paes
  • Institute for Applied Economic Research (ipea)

Entstanden

  • 2015

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