Descomposición de las brechas de ingresos del sector público y privado.

Abstract

In Ecuador, wage inequality has been diagnosed among the labor sectors, that is to say, Public and private, for this reason the present research has as essential objective to analyze empirically the salary gaps of the individuals in the public and private sectors in Ecuador. The results presented in the research show that there is indeed a wage discrepancy in favor of the public sector. In addition, to constitute in what circumstance the differentials were due to opposition in the productive characteristics (level of education or human capital, level of experience, etc.). The statistical data come from the estimation of mincerian equations of ordinary least squares wage income (OLS) and the use of the Heckman method (1979) that repairs the sample selection bias, so we proceed to the use of wage decay methodology Manifested by Blinder-Oaxaca (1973) which in turn is corrected by the method mentioned by Heckman (1979) and the MCO estimation respectively