An examination of the public sector wage premium in Canada : a critique of the 2008 study by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) called Wage watch, a comparison of public and private sector wages

Macdonald, David (author.). Canadian Electronic Library (Firm), (distributor.). Canadian Federation of Independent Business, (contributor.). Coherent Digital (Firm) (Added Author). National Union of Public and General Employees, (issuing body.).

Summary: There is a long history of studying the differences in pay between the private sector and the public sector both in Canada and internationally. The original theory was that the private sector, because it was constrained by its profits and therefore by market discipline, would be better able to control wages. The public sector, for its part, does not have a profit constraint and so economists theorized that workers in the public sector would have higher wages as a result. Six academic studies of this thesis have been conducted to date in Canada (this excludes non-academic work like that of the CFIB).

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Physical Description: 1 electronic text (12 pages)
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Publisher: [Nepean, Ontario] : NUPGE, 2009.
Distributor: Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2013.

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General Note:	"October 2009." CatMonthString:january.23 Issued as part of the desLibris documents collection. Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Methodologies for evaluating wage differentials -- History of Canadian study results -- Source of the wage premium -- Gender -- Immigrants -- Unionization -- Critique of the CFIB 2008 study.
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Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by Canada Commons.