Publication type
Journal Article
Authors
Publication date
August 15, 2012
Summary:
Recent controversy has surrounded the relative value of public and private sector remuneration. We propose a comprehensive measure of Total Reward (TR) which includes not just pay, but pensions and other ‘benefits in kind’, evaluate it as the present value of the sum of all these payments over the lifetime and compare it for the highly educated in the UK public and private sectors. Our results suggest that TR is broadly equalized over the lifecycle for highly educated men while highly educated women have a clear TR advantage in the public sector by the end of their career. We suggest that the current controversy over public-private sector pension differentials and the perennial issues of public/private sector pay gaps requires a life time perspective and that the concept of TR is appropriate.
Published in
Labour Economics
Volume and page numbers
Volume: 19 , p.584 -594
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2012.05.010
ISSN
9275371
Subjects
Notes
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