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Pay of Employees in the Public and Private Sector

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2020

Chris Trinder
Chris Trinder*
Affiliation:
National Institute of Economic and Social Research
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Abstract

This article sets out a general framework within which the sectoral distribution of pay can be examined. The main evidence on income from employment is then analysed with a view to answering questions about overall changes in total pay bills, and gross earnings of individuals in the public and private sectors.

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National Institute Economic Review , Volume 97 , August 1981 , pp. 48 - 56
Copyright
Copyright © 1981 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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References

(1) Private sector employees accounted for 93.5 per cent of all employment in manufacturing industries in 1979.

(1) In an earlier study ‘Earnings in the public and private sectors 1950-75’, National Institute Economic Review, No. 74, November 1975, A. J. H. Dean considered the earnings of male manual workers in the two sectors. The findings of the present study, particularly with regard to fluctuations in relative pay, provide an interesting development to Dean's conclusions.

(1) It is not easy to measure the response rate for the New Earnings Survey because the sample design is such that, of the forms sent out initially a substantial number go to employees outside the scope of the survey. And, in 1980, 11,000 forms related to employees who had left the employer to whom the questionnaire was sent. Moreover, as the report recognises, the coverage of part-time workers is less satisfactory.