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November 1998 C072
Article
Public pay in Britain in the 1990s
Type: IFS Commentaries
Authors: Richard Disney, Alissa Goodman, Amanda Gosling and Chris Trinder
Volume, issue, pages: 36 pp
ISBN: 978-1-873357-83-5
IFS member price: £20
Non-member price: £10

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This Commentary looks at public pay in detail, tracing its trend relative to the private sector over the 1980s and 1990s and showing how the gap in pay between the public and private sectors differs dramatically across occupations, gender and education groups. These findings illustrate how misleading comparisons of public and private sector pay based on aggregate data can be.

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