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Flannnery, Darragh and Turner, Tom (2018) Assessing the wage gap between public and private sector employees in Ireland: issues, evidence and challenges. Irish Journal of Management, 37 (1): 5. pp. 51-64. ISSN 1649-248X
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Abstract
Over recent years pay levels in the public sector of the economy have come under increasing scrutiny. This paper provides an assessment of the key issues and challenges central to a comparison of wage levels in the private and public sector in Ireland. A review of the extant studies that have employed multivariate analysis to estimate the gap between public and private sector wages in Ireland indicates a wage premium in favour of public sector workers. However the actual magnitude of the earnings gap is difficult to accurately assess as the size of the premium varies markedly across these various studies. A number of possible options are suggested to guide the development of a fair system for assessing wage levels in the public sector.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | Pay‑gap; Evidence; Issues; |
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Business |
| Item ID: | 20445 |
| Identification Number: | 10.2478/ijm-2018-0005 |
| Depositing User: | IAM School of Business |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Aug 2025 12:54 |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Irish Journal of Management |
| Publisher: | Irish Academy of Management |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/20445 |
| Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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