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Table 5 Effect of an occupation’s national proportion of job holders aged 30 years or under, job holders aged 50 years and over, women, employees ( versus self-employed), and four types of bonuses on its wage rank and its wage level within countries (unstandardized coefficients and standard errors of OLS regressions)

From: Health workforce remuneration: comparing wage levels, ranking, and dispersion of 16 occupational groups in 20 countries

 

Wage rank (1=lowest, 16=highest)

Wage level (USD)

 

B

Sign

s.e

B

Sign

s.e

(Constant)

23.12

***

2.27

53.95

***

5.43

Proportion aged 30 years or less

−7.53

***

2.07

−9.27

 

4.83

Proportion aged 50 years and over

0.88

 

2.23

3.55

 

5.32

Proportion women

−7.80

***

1.05

−8.02

**

2.46

Proportion employees

−9.44

***

2.33

−35.54

***

5.35

Proportion receiving fixed annual bonus

0.97

 

1.26

   

Proportion receiving fixed regular bonus

0.46

 

2.73

   

Proportion receiving variable annual bonus

7.60

 

4.83

   

Proportion receiving variable regular bonus

2.40

 

2.40

   

Adj R Sq

.29

  

.21

  

N

300

  

300

  
  1. Source: Data from the WageIndicator survey 2008–2011 (weighted within countries), aggregated for 16 HRH occupations in 20 countries (n=300 occupation/country cells, which are not weighted across countries for the size of the national population or the national HRH workforce).
  2. Significance levels: ***P <0.001; **P<0.005; *P<0.010.
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