Understanding vertical pay dispersion in the public sector: the role of publicness for manager-to-worker pay ratios and interdisciplinary agenda for future research

Florian Keppeler; Ulf Papenfuß

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Understanding vertical pay dispersion in the public sector: the role of publicness for manager-to-worker pay ratios and interdisciplinary agenda for future research

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This study introduces vertical pay dispersion, a prevailing equity issue in discussions of organizations and society, to public management research. Bridging tournament and equity theory with the publicness debate, the study analyses the role of publicness dimensions —ownership, funding, and control— for manager-to-worker pay ratios of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). The results show that, for a unique five-year data set, ownership publicness partly affects vertical pay dispersion, and the effects are moderated by city and SOE size. The study enhances the understanding of vertical pay dispersion in the public sector and offers a research agenda regarding the determinants.

Original language	English
Journal	Public Management Review
Volume	24
Issue	11
Pages (from-to)	1846-1871
Number of pages	26
ISSN	1471-9037
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2021.1942531
Publication status	Published - 2022
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

equity theory
multi-level panel analysis
publicness
tournament theory
vertical pay dispersion
Vertical pay dispersion

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Understanding vertical pay dispersion in the public sector: the role of publicness for manager-to-worker pay ratios and interdisciplinary agenda for future research. / Keppeler, Florian; Papenfuß, Ulf.
In: Public Management Review , Vol. 24, No. 11, 2022, p. 1846-1871.

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