Fig. 4

Partial correlation between government effectiveness and the public pay gap. Notes: This figure shows the correlation between 5-year changes in the quality of public services of a country and changes in the public sector pay gap, once other characteristics are controlled for, namely changes in the number of public employees and changes in openness; see column (4) of Table 5. The negative slope indicates that improvements in the quality of public services are associated in the long run with lower public sector pay gaps