Have a personal or library account? Click to login
Assessing the wage gap between public and private sector employees in Ireland: issues, evidence and challenges Cover

Assessing the wage gap between public and private sector employees in Ireland: issues, evidence and challenges

By: Darragh Flannery and  Tom Turner  
Open Access
|Jan 2019

References

  1. Bach, S. and Stroleny, A. (2013). ‘Public service employment restructuring in the crisis in the UK and Ireland: Social partnership in retreat’. European Journal of Industrial Relations 19: 4, 341-357.
  2. Becker, G. (1976). Human Capital New York: National Bureau of Economic Research.
  3. Belman, D. and Heywood, J. (1996). ‘The structure of compensation in the public sector’, in D. Belman, G. Morley and D. Hyatt (eds), Public Sector Employment Madison, WI: Industrial Relations Research Association, pp.127-162.
  4. Belman, D. and Heywood, J. (2004). ‘Public-sector wage comparability: The role of earnings dispersion’. Public Finance Review 32: 6.
  5. Bender, K. (2003). ‘Examining equality between public-and private-sector wage distributions’. Economic Inquiry 41: 1, 62-79.
  6. Bender, K. and Elliott, R. (2002). ‘The role of job attributes in understanding the public and-private wage differential’. Industrial Relations 41: 3, 407-421.
  7. Boyle, G., McElliot, R. and O’Leary, J. (2004). ‘Public-private wage differentials in Ireland, 1994-2001’, in ESRI Quarterly Economic Quarterly Special Article. Summer. Dublin: The Economic and Social Research Institute.
  8. CEEU. (2014). The Cost of the Public Service: Comprehensive Review of Expenditure October 2014. Central Expenditure Evaluation Unit: Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service (IGEES). http://igees.gov.ie/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/The-Cost-of-the-Public-Service.pdf
  9. Christopouloau, R. and Monastiriotis, V. (2014). ‘The Greek public sector wage premium before the crisis: Size, selection and relative valuation of characteristics’. British Journal of Industrial Relations 52: 3, 579-602.
  10. CSO. (2012). National Employment Survey 2009 and 2010 Supplementary Analysis Cork: Central Statistics Office.
  11. CSO. (2013). Specific Analysis of the Public/Private Sector Pay Differential for National Employment Survey 2009 & 2010 Data. CSO Research Paper, Cork: Central Statistics Office.
  12. CSO. (2014). Earnings and Labour Costs Quarterly, Q1 2014 (Final) Q2 2014 (Preliminary Estimates) August, Cork: Central Statistics Office.
  13. CSO. (2017). Research Paper Econometric Analysis of the Public/Private Sector Pay Differential 2011 to 2014.
  14. De Castro, F., Salto, M. and Steiner, H. (2013). The Gap between Public and Private Wages: New Evidence for the EU European Commission: Economic Papers 508. http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/publications/economic_paper/2013/pdf/ecp508_en.pdf
  15. Doran, J, McCarthy, N. and O’Connor, M. (2016). An Analysis of Public and Private Sector Earnings in Ireland 2008-2013 Report prepared in collaboration with the School of Economics, University College Cork and Public Policy. http://www.publicpolicy.ie/wp-content/uploads/UCC-PublicPolicy-22-June-16-1.pdf
  16. Elliott, R.F., and Duffus, K. (1996). ‘What has been happening to pay in the public service sector of the British economy? Developments over the period 1910-1992’. British Journal of Industrial Relations 34: 51-85.
  17. Ernst & Young and Murphy, A. (2007). An Econometric Study of Earnings Based on National Employment Survey 2003 Data Report of the Public Service Benchmarking Body. http://www.benchmarking.gov.ie/Documents/Econometric%20Study%20of%20Earnings%202007.pdf
  18. Foley, P. and O’Callaghan, F. (2010). ‘Investigating the public-private wage gap in Ireland using data from the National Employment Survey 2007’. Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland XXXIX: 23-52.
  19. Gibson, J. (2009). ‘The rising public sector pay premium in the New Zealand labour market’. New Zealand Economic Papers 43: 3.
  20. Giordano, R., Depalo, D., Pereira, M., Eugène, B., Papapetrou, E., Perez, J., et al. (2011). The Public Sector Pay Gap in a Selection of Euro Area Countries. Working Paper Series No. 1406/December, European Central Bank. https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpwps/ecbwp1406.pdf
  21. Greenwood, J. (2016). ‘Institutional theories of the wage bargain: Beyond demand and supply’. Journal of Economic Issues 50: 2.
  22. Gregory, R. and Borland, J. (1999). ‘Recent developments in public sector labour markets’, in O. Ashenfelter and D. Card (eds), Handbook of Labor Economics Vol. 3C, Amsterdam: North-Holland, pp.3573-3630.
  23. Holm-Hadulla, F., Kamath, K., Lamo, A., Pérez, J. and Schuknecht, L. (2010). Public Wagesin the Euro Area: Towards Securing Stability and Competitiveness Occasional Papers Series: No 112/June, European Central Bank. https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpops/ecbocp112.pdf?eb3d92697c5237c0269739cc52243a94
  24. Kelly, E., McGuinness, P. and O’Connell, P. (2009). The Public-Private Sector Pay Gap in Ireland: What Lies Beneath? ESRI Working Paper No. 321, October 2009.
  25. Kelly, E., McGuinness, P. and O’Connell, P. (2012). ‘Comparing public and private sector pay in Ireland: Size matters’. Quarterly Economic Commentary Winter: 53-59.
  26. Lucifora, C. and Meurs, D. (2006). ‘The public sector pay gap in France, Great Britain and Italy’. Review of Income and Wealth 52: 1, 43-59.
  27. Melly, B. (2005). ‘Public-private sector wage differentials in Germany: Evidence from quantile regression’. Empirical Economics 30 (2): 505-520.
  28. Mincer, J. (1974). Schooling, Experience and Earnings New York: Columbia University Press.
  29. Mueller, R. (2000). ‘Public and private-sector wage differentials in Canada revisited’. Industrial Relations 39: 3, 75-400.
  30. Oaxaca, R. (1973). ‘Male-female wage differentials in urban labor markets’. International Economic Review 14: 3, 693-703.
  31. Poterba, J.M. and Rueben, K.S. (1994). The Distribution of Public Sector Wage Premia: New Evidence Using Quantile Regression Methods Working Paper No.4734, NBER, Cambridge, MA. Report of the Public Service Pay Commission May 2017. https://www.tui.ie/_fileupload/Report%20of%20the%20Public%20Service%20Pay%20Commission%20May%202017.pdf
  32. Roche, W., Teague, P. and Coughlan, A. (2015). ‘Employers, Trade Unions and Concession Bargaining in the Irish Recession’. Economic and Industrial Democracy 36: 4, 653-676.
  33. Roche, W.K. (2016). ‘Workplaces’: Austerity and recovery in Ireland’, in W.K. Roche, P. O’Connell and A. Prothero (eds), Austerity and Recovery in Ireland: Europe’s Poster Child and the Great Recession Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  34. RPSBB. (2002). Report of the Public Service Benchmarking Body 21 December, 2007. Dublin: Government Stationary Office. http://benchmarking.gov.ie/documents/benchmarking%2007.pdf
  35. Rueda, D. and Pontusson, J. (2000). ‘Wage inequality and varieties of capitalism’. World Politics 52: 3, 350-383.
  36. Sheffrin, M. (2003). Economics: Principles in Action New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall.
  37. Turner, T. and Flannery, D. (2016) Assessing the Wage Gap between Public and Private Sector for Managerial, Professional and Clerical Male and Female Employees. Working Paper Research Series: Paper No. 01/15 August. Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick.
  38. Turner, T., Cross, C. and Murphy, C. (2017). ‘Occupations, age and gender: Men and women’s earnings in the Irish labour market’, Economic and Industrial Democracyhttp://journals.sagepub.com.proxy.lib.ul.ie/doi/pdf/10.1177/0143831´17704910[Accessed 17 May 2017].
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijm-2018-0005 | Journal eISSN: 2451-2834 | Journal ISSN: 1649-248X
Language: English
Page range: 51 - 64
Published on: Jan 31, 2019
Published by: Irish Academy of Management
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 3 issues per year

© 2019 Darragh Flannery, Tom Turner, published by Irish Academy of Management
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.