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dc.contributor.authorRattsø, Jørn
dc.contributor.authorStokke, Hildegunn Ekroll
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-07T07:26:19Z
dc.date.available2020-01-07T07:26:19Z
dc.date.created2019-07-05T20:23:23Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.citationLabour Economics. 2019, 59 153-163.nb_NO
dc.identifier.issn0927-5371
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2635028
dc.description.abstractWe suggest an identification strategy for the private-public sector wage gap to correct for the bias resulting from the heterogeneity of unobservable characteristics between shifters and stayers. The analysis applies a fixed effect difference-in-difference model with event study design to estimate the wage gap. As the parallel wage trend assumption between shifters from the public to the private sector and public sector stayers is rejected, late shifters still in the public sector are used as counterfactual group for early shifters. The estimates are based on rich register data for high-educated workers in Norway 1993–2010. Using this novel identification method, we show that due to positive selection, the private-public wage gap is overestimated by about 20% in the standard model comparing shifters with stayers. In an extension of the analysis, we show that the overestimation is the same for male and female workers and is robust across business cycles, although the size of the wage gap is pro-cyclical.nb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.publisherElseviernb_NO
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
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dc.titleIdentification of the private-public wage gapnb_NO
dc.typeJournal articlenb_NO
dc.typePeer reviewednb_NO
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionnb_NO
dc.source.pagenumber153-163nb_NO
dc.source.volume59nb_NO
dc.source.journalLabour Economicsnb_NO
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.labeco.2019.04.006
dc.identifier.cristin1710413
dc.description.localcodeThis is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC-BY license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.nb_NO
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