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20. Juni 2012

Seminar

The effect of public sector employment on wage distribution compression: An analysis of the German private-public wage gap 1984 to 2010
Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

Termin

20. Juni 2012
6.30 - 8.30 pm

Ort

Freie Universität Berlin
Raum 315
Garystr. 20
14195 Berlin

Sprecher*innen

Miriam Reuschel (Universität Potsdam)
Abstract: The tasks of the public sector as an employer in a welfare state are twofold. First, the public sector has to provide services, which are regarded as indispensable for society. Here, the public sector competes for qualified staff with the private sector. In order to attract qualified personnel the public sector competes with a package, often comprised off lower remuneration accompanied by higher job security. Second, public sector employment may be used as a tool to support disadvantaged groups on the labor market. Especially woman and unqualified workers tend to get higher remuneration compared to an employment in the private sector. Consequently, for high skilled a negative and for low skilled or disadvantaged a positive public-private wage gap exists. Nevertheless the question remains whether the existing wage gap and a shrinking public sector causes a rise or decline the overall inequality of the wage distribution in Germany.

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