| Titre | Les écarts de salaires entre les secteurs public et privé en Afrique francophone : analyse comparative | |
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| Auteur | Jean-Pierre Lachaud | |
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Revue | Economie et prévision |
| Numéro | no 116, 1994/5 Économie de l'éducation | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Économie de l'éducation |
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| Page | 89-118 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Wage Deviations between the Public and Private Sectors in French-Speaking Africa: A Comparative Analysis,
by Jean-Pierre Lachaud.
In the structural adjustment programmes implemented in Africa, the idea that public-sector wages are too high compared with private-sector wages forms one of the bases for public-sector wage policies. Yet few studies have actually examined the existence of a sectorial wage differential resulting in a segmentation of the modern sector's labour market in African economies. The author sets out to check this hypothesis using an estimate of gains functions. He bases his work on homogeneous transversal data, taken from recent pilot employment surveys of households in seven French-speaking African capitals, and on longitudinal data inherent to a single country. The main conclusion of this research is that distortions on the modern labour markets of many African countries are not as great as is normally thought. In most of the countries considered, wage deviations between the public and private sectors are essentially due to individual characteristics. This result suggests that the continuation of policies to reduce public-sector wages is no longer totally justifiable, either economically or socially. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/ecop_0249-4744_1994_num_116_5_5701 |
