Exploding public pay rates

[Proposition Joe]

Not really, I'd need to know more about labour market structures in other countries. It may that our workforce as a whole has a higher proportion of lower-skilled, lower-paid workers than other EU states. Or our public sector has a higher proportion of higher-skilled, higher-paid workers.

Even if that was the case, and there's no supporting data that I know of, it still wouldn't explain the relatively sudden growth of the public-private pay disparity in the period 2002-2007. Private sector workers didn't suddenly start achieving relatively lower educational standards in the early noughties, neither is there any evidence for a sudden jump in PS qualifications in the same period.

A much more credible explanation for the love shown to the PS during the boom would lie in the vote-buying antics of FF.

[essexboy]

Why are libraries closed tomorrow (saturday)? close on Monday - that is OK but why do libraries always close on Bank Holiday saturdays?
Nice for the staff but not for the public. Meanwhile in Northern Ireland . . .

[Conor]

Even if that was the case, and there's no supporting data that I know of, it still wouldn't explain the relatively sudden growth of the public-private pay disparity in the period 2002-2007. Private sector workers didn't suddenly start achieving relatively lower educational standards in the early noughties, neither is there any evidence for a sudden jump in PS qualifications in the same period.

A much more credible explanation for the love shown to the PS during the boom would lie in the vote-buying antics of FF.

It was my understanding that the relative disparity had narrowed in that period. On what are you basing your claim?