Diferentes padrões de políticas salariais nos estados brasileiros: uma análise a partir do diferencial de salários público-privado Different patterns of wage policies in Brazilian state governments

• Main Authors: Gabriela Miranda Moriconi, João S. Moura Neto, Nelson Marconi, Paulo Roberto Arvate
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Editora 34 2009-09-01
• Series: Brazilian Journal of Political Economy
• Subjects: public-private differential; wages; public expenditure
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-31572009000300007

<abstract language="eng">Public servant wages represent a significant part of Brazilian state governments' current expenses. Based on the literature, this paper has tried to identify which states practice efficient, compensatory or appropriation wage politics through the estimation of public-private wage differentials. The differential of salaries was calculated between 1995 and 2004 following the Oaxaca's technique. The results show that the wage policy of an important number of states has had efficiency and a numerous part of the North and the Northeast states have developed compensatory politics. The Federal District and Roraima practiced a wage policy characterized by explicit appropriation.