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Public and Private Sector Pay: a Partly Disaggregated Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2020

N. Foster ,
S.G.B. Henry  and
C. Trinder
N. Foster
Affiliation:
National Institute of Economic and Social Research
S.G.B. Henry
Affiliation:
National Institute of Economic and Social Research
C. Trinder*
Affiliation:
National Institute of Economic and Social Research
*
(1)Thanks for comments on earlier drafts are extended to A. B. Atkinson, A. J. C. Britton, M. Desai, S. Hall, A. Harvey, Mrs. K. Jones, A. Marin, S. Wadhwani, and S. Wren-Lewis. We also gratefully acknowledge the research assistance of C. Freeman.
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The purpose of this article is to give a preliminary econometric analysis of earnings inflation based on the disaggregation of aggregate earnings into four sectors: private manufacturing; private non-manufacturing; public corporations; and central and local government. In the introduction we discuss some of our objectives in analysing wage movements in this way. The second section presents the data. The third section describes the alternative hypotheses to be tested and the research methodology used. The fourth section describes the results of the econometric analysis and in the fifth section we draw tentative conclusions. The data series used are described in more detail in the appendix.

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National Institute Economic Review , Volume 107 , February 1984 , pp. 63 - 73
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Copyright © 1984 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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