scholarly journals Understanding What Has Been Happening to the Public‐Sector Pay Premium in Great Britain: A Distributional Approach Based on the Labour Force Survey

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Murphy ◽  
David Blackaby ◽  
Nigel O'Leary ◽  
Anita Staneva
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
The Public

scholarly journals The Living Wage: An Economic Geography Based Explanation for a Policy for Equality

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 589-605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlo J. Morelli ◽  
Paul T. Seaman
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Living Wage ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
The Public ◽  
Household Inequality ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Wage Demand ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Low Pay

This article examines the theoretical underpinning of living wage campaigns. The article uses evidence, derived from the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey from 2005 to 2008, to examine the extent to which a living wage will address low pay within the labour force. We highlight the greater incidence of low pay within the private sector and then focus upon the public sector where the living wage demand has had most impact. The article builds upon the results from the Quarterly Labour Force Survey with analysis of the British Household Panel Survey in 2007 in order to examine the impact that the introduction of a living wage, within the public sector, would have in reducing household inequality.

scholarly journals Jobs, earnings, and routine-task occupational change in times of revolution: The Tunisian perspective

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Ali Marouani ◽  
Phuong Le Minh ◽  
Michelle Marshalian
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Wage Inequality ◽  
Influence Function ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Wage Structure ◽  
Service Workers ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Main Driver

In this paper we investigate the links between wage inequality and the changing nature of jobs in a revolution context. The methodology consists of various decompositions and regressions, including recentred influence function regressions, based on Tunisian labour force surveys from the past 20 years. Tunisia’s labour market during the period of investigation is characterized by a decreasing earnings inequality following the fall of education premia, and an asymmetric wage polarization led by the increase of the lowest wages. After the Revolution, the routine task index increased significantly because of the rise of the share of routine agricultural and service workers. Although evidence shows that the routinization had a role in the evolution of the wage structure, it is not the main driver. Its effect was crowded out by employment and wage policies in the public sector.

‘Positive direct rule’: economic policy

No Solution ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.C. Aveyard
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Labour Government ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Positive Direct

This chapter looks at economic policy in Northern Ireland in the context of severe economic difficulties experienced by the UK as a whole. It shows how the Labour government sought to shield Northern Ireland from economic realities because of the conflict, increasing public expenditure and desperately seeking industrial investment. The level of desperation in this endeavour is illustrated through examples such as Harland & Wolff’s shipyards and the DeLorean Motor Company. The experience of the 1970s, and particularly under the Labour government, set the pattern for the following decades with a steadily increasing subvention from the rest of the United Kingdom and a growing dependence on the public sector, all at a time when the opposite trend took place in Great Britain.

scholarly journals The Public and Private Sector Pay Gap in Pakistan: A Quantile Regression Analysis

2005 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asma Hyder ◽  
Barry Reilly
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Quantile Regression ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Wage Distribution ◽  
Pay Gap ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Quantile Regression Analysis ◽  
Public And Private Sector

This paper examines the magnitude of public/private wage differentials in Pakistan using data drawn from the 2001-02 Pakistan Labour Force Survey. As in many other countries, public sector workers in Pakistan tend both to have higher average pay and education levels as compared to their private sector counterparts. In addition, the public sector in Pakistan has both a more compressed wage distribution and a smaller gender pay gap than that prevailing in the private sector. Our empirical analysis suggests that about two-fifths of the raw differential in average hourly wages between the two sectors is accounted for by differentials in average characteristics. The estimated public sector mark-up, ceteris paribus, is of the order of 49 percent and is substantial by the standards of developed economies. The quantile regression estimates suggest that the mark-up was found to decline monotonically with movement up the conditional wage distribution. In particular, the premium at the 10th percentile was estimated at 92 percent as compared to a more modest 20 percent at the 90th percentile.

The Growth of Private Practice in Occupational Therapy in Great Britain

1992 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 157-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Cossar
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Private Practice ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
The Public ◽  
Competitive Tendering ◽  
Therapy Services

By means of a questionnaire issued to the 65 therapists registered on the COT Private Practice Directory 1989, a study gathered demographic details and information regarding the growth of private practice, diversity of practice and referral sources. It appeared that trends emerging amongst occupational therapists in the private sector might be pre-empting trends in the occupational therapy profession in general. With decreasing resources and the introduction of competitive tendering in the public sector, more therapists might have to re-examine their services in terms of cost-effectiveness. It seemed that colleagues in the private sector had already rationalised their services in order to compete in the marketplace. Those skills that were highly visible, in the physical, domiciliary and litigation areas of work, predominated. The findings have implications for those occupational therapy services presently without proven effectiveness which require urgent research to prevent their further decline.

Strategic Divestment in the Public Sector: Patterns from France and Great Britain

2007 ◽  
pp. 277-311
Author(s):  
Taíeb Hafsi ◽  
Jan J. Jorgensen ◽  
Christian Koenig
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
The Public
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