Loading...
Please wait, while we are loading the content...
Similar Documents
The Brazilian wage gap between teachers in the public and private sectors across education levels
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Barcellos, Thais Bartolomeu |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Abstract | The two stage wage gap decomposition proposed by Firpo, Fortin, and Lemieux (2009) permits measuring the contribution of observable and unobservable characteristics of the wage gap formation and evolution comparing teachers earnings in the public and private sectors from 2006 to 2016. We found that teachers from the public sector earn more than the ones from the private sector at mean, median and quantile 10 due to the composition effect. The analysis across education levels shows that the composition effect is important to explain the wage gap in Early Childhood Education, while the structure effect is more relevant in the wage gap decomposition in Elementary and High School Education. Key-words: wage gap decomposition; private and public sectors; teachers’ wage |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.anpec.org.br/encontro/2018/submissao/files_I/i13-083baaa4eea771d34f7eeb98327be1db.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
