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Decomposing the Labor Market Earnings Inequality : The Public and Private Sectors in Vietnam, 1993–2006

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dc.contributor.authorImbert, Clement
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-30T21:10:07Z
dc.date.available2014-07-30T21:10:07Z
dc.date.issued2013-01
dc.description.abstractIn contrast with the typical transition to a market economy, earnings inequality in Vietnam between 1993 and 2006 appears to have decreased, and the earnings gap in favor of public employees appears to have widened. We use a comparative advantage model to disentangle the effect of sorting workers across sectors from the effect of the differences in returns to workers' skills. The selection of the best workers into the public sector is clearly an important component of the explanation for the public-private sector earnings gap, but the widening of this gap over time is primarily due to changes in the compensation patterns. We find that in the 1990s, public employees were underpaid compared with their earning potential in the private sector, whereas in the early 2000s, public employees earned similar returns to their comparative advantage in the public and private sectors. The increasing homogeneity in returns to skills in the Vietnamese labor market appears to explain both the increase in the public-private pay gap and the decrease in overall inequality.en
dc.identifier.citationWorld Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/19086
dc.identifier.issn1564-698X
dc.identifier.other10.1093/wber/lhs009
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/19086
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherOxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorld Bank Economic Review
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.subjectattrition
dc.subjectearning
dc.subjectearnings inequality
dc.subjecthousehold surveys
dc.subjectlabor market
dc.subjectlabor markets
dc.subjectmassive layoffs
dc.subjectPrivate enterprises
dc.subjectprivate sector
dc.subjectprivate sector employees
dc.subjectPrivate Sectors
dc.subjectpublic sector employees
dc.subjectpublic sector workers
dc.subjecttotal labor force
dc.subjectunskilled workers
dc.subjectwage differentials
dc.subjectwage employment
dc.subjectwage gap
dc.subjectwage inequality
dc.subjectworkers
dc.titleDecomposing the Labor Market Earnings Inequality : The Public and Private Sectors in Vietnam, 1993–2006en
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.typeArticle de journalfr
dc.typeArtículo de revistaes
dspace.entity.typePublication
okr.crosscuttingsolutionareaJobs
okr.date.disclosure2014-07-30
okr.date.doiregistration2025-05-06T11:35:14.313168Z
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Journal Article
okr.globalpracticeSocial Protection and Labor
okr.globalpracticePoverty
okr.globalpracticeGovernance
okr.identifier.doi10.1093/wber/lhs009
okr.journal.nbpages55-79
okr.language.supporteden
okr.peerreviewAcademic Peer Review
okr.region.countryViet Nam
okr.relation.associatedurlhttps://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/13130
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Inequality
okr.topicPublic Sector Development
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Labor Markets
okr.topicPublic Sector Economics and Finance
okr.topicPublic Sector Management and Reform
okr.volume27(1)
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