Earnings of public sector and private sector employees in Australia: is there a difference?

Economic Record

Volumn 74, Issue 224, 1998, Pages 36-53

  Borland, Jeff ^a   Hirschberg, Joe ^b   Lye, Jenny ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EARNINGS TRENDS; PRIVATE SECTOR; PUBLIC SECTOR;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0031820481     PISSN: 00130249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.1998.tb01902.x     Document Type: Article

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