A Switching Regression Model for Wage Determinants in the Public and Private Sectors of a Developing Country
构建并估计了一个模型，比较发展中国家公共与私营部门的工资差异，并内生处理部门选择问题，发现基于部门样本的普通最小二乘估计存在严重偏误。数据来自科特迪瓦。
Governments in less developed countries face severe budgetary constraints. Given that public sector employment is a large part of modern sector employment, the government wage bill h as come under increased scrutiny. The central question is how do gove rnment wages compare with those in the private sector? In this paper, the authors develop and estimate a model to answer this question. An important aspect of this model is the endogenous treatment of sector choice. The estimation results (full information maximum likelihood) sound a strong warning against the use of ordinary least squares est imates that are based on sector-specific samples. Data are from the I vory Coast. Copyright 1988 by MIT Press.