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Public-Private sector Pay gaPs in Finland: a quantile regression analysis *
2011
Finnish Economic Papers
unpublished
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This paper examines public-private sector wage differentials in Finland using a quantile regression method. We control for the endogeneity of the working sector and allow the returns of individual skills to vary between industries. The results suggest that men earn a premium of 3 percent in the public sector at the lower-end jobs. At the median and the upper end of the distribution, men's pay gap is negative, varying between 5 and 10 percent. Women, in turn, always earn more in the public
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