“…In general, the wage gap favours the public sector, especially at the lower end of the wage distribution. There is evidence of this pattern in Zambia (Nielsen & Rosholm, 2001), Pakistan (Hyder & Reilly, 2005), France, Great Britain and Italy (Lucifora & Meurs, 2006), Ireland (Kelly, McGuinness, & O'Connell, 2009), Spain (Rahona-López, Murillo-Huertas, & Salinas-Jiménez, 2016), and Australia (Mahuteau, Mavromaras, Richardson, & Zhu, 2017).…”