Salary Distribution and Percentages of Low-salary Workers in the Public Sector, Focusing on the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic Cover Image

Distribuce platů a procentní podíly nízkopříjmových zaměstnanců ve veřejném sektoru se zaměřením na první rok pandemie covid-19
Salary Distribution and Percentages of Low-salary Workers in the Public Sector, Focusing on the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Author(s): Diana Bílková, Vlastimil Beran, Filip Červenka
Subject(s): Labor relations, Present Times (2010 - today), Public Finances, Fiscal Politics / Budgeting
Published by: Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze
Keywords: Salaries in public sector; salary distribution models; percentage proportions of employees with lowest salaries; prediction; effects of COVID-19 pandemic on salaries;

Summary/Abstract: The objective of this paper is to analyse the distribution of salaries in the public sector with a focus on employees receiving a salary at the level of minimum wages in the initial period of the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the methods used is the construction of salary distribution models by gender and educational attainment and the creation of predictions using exponential smoothing. The results of the analysis show the highest increase in real salaries among women with the lowest education. The results further show that the highest benefit in terms of the average real monthly salary of both men and women comes from changing the employee’s educational attainment from secondary education without A-level examination to secondary education with A-level examination. On the other hand, for women originally with primary education, obtaining an apprenticeship certificate does not have a significant effect on their real salary on average.

  • Issue Year: 71/2023
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 555-590
  • Page Count: 36
  • Language: Czech