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| dc.contributor.author | Bibler, Andrew | |
| dc.contributor.author | Guettabi, Mouhcine | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-08-08T00:23:09Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-08-08T00:23:09Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-12-01 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11122/9261 | |
| dc.description.abstract | We compare earnings in the Alaska public and private sector labor markets from 2001 -2016. Public sector laborers are older and more likely to be female, suggesting that taking these differences into consideration will be important in our comparisons. We also focus on the public-private sector earnings gaps for men and women separately, as the magnitude and even direction of the gap depends on this distinction. We go about this in three ways: unconditional comparisons, conditional earnings gaps, and comparing the earnings and growth of individuals who remain with the same employer. Below are the main findings: • The unconditional average public-private earnings gaps for men and women are of opposing signs (see Table 1). – Men in the public sector earn about $2,129 less in quarterly wages than men in the private sector, on average. – Women in the public sector earn about $498 more in quarterly wages than women in the private sector, on average. • On average, across all occupations, men and women have higher initial earnings in the private sector at the beginning of a job spell. – For men, the difference is $3113 in quarterly earnings. – For women, the difference is $760 in quarterly earnings. • Among workers who remain with the same employer, earnings growth is 1% and 2% higher in the public sector for men and women, respectively. • For men, despite the faster growth, they don’t catch up to the earnings of private sector employees within 10 years of tenure in most occupations (See Tables 9 and 11, and Figure 12). 1 • Women in the public sector earn more than their private sector counterparts within a few years of tenure, on average. • There is substantial heterogeneity in the earnings gap across occupations (See Tables 10 and 12, and Figure 13). | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Alaska Department of Administration | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska Anchorage | en_US |
| dc.subject | Alaska | en_US |
| dc.subject | employment | en_US |
| dc.title | Public and Private Sector Earnings in Alaska | en_US |
| dc.type | Report | en_US |
