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    Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials and Returns to Education in Djibouti

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    Casero, Paloma
    Seshan, Ganesh
    Abstract
    Do public sector workers earn a wage premium in Djibouti and are the returns to education different across the sectors? The authors estimate private and public sector wage earnings using 1996 household survey data, while controlling for selectivity using Heckman's two stage approach. They find that Djiboutian public sector employees earn a wage premium, independent of their personal attributes and human capital endowments, and are more likely to be males and have parents in the public sector. Workers in the public sector earn higher private rates of return to education than do private sector workers with post-secondary schooling. These results raise concerns about current government hiring and wage-setting practices that generate distortions in the labor market and are not efficiently allocating labor and public resources.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10822/713222
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-3923
    Date Published
    2006
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    Subject
    Human Capital; Minimum Wage; Private Sector Workers; Public Sector Workers; Wage Differentials; Finance and Financial Sector Development; Djibouti; Middle East and North Africa; Social Protections and Labor; Education;
    Type
    Article
    Is Part Of
    Policy Research Working Papers. The World Bank.
    Publisher
    World Bank
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