Graduates from the top 5 UK universities entering the public sector have seen large wage declines relative to the private sector. The share entering the public sector however has been relatively stable. 📊 Read @claravobi and @matt_nibloe's briefing here: https://t.co/529iH8oYBD

NEW: The public sector has become a less common first place of employment for those with lower levels of education, while becoming a more common destination for the most qualified. @claravobi and @matt_nibloe's new IFS working paper documents who enters the public sector:

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper: @matt_nibloe studies the distributional consequences of UK public sector wage caps between 2010 and 2017. 🧵👇

NEW #IFSWorkingPaper: Levelling down: the distributional consequences of public pay caps Matthew Nibloe finds that the 2010s' UK public sector pay cap disproportionately compressed wages at the top, and increased the gender pay gap & regional inequality: https://t.co/hk6yWuIkK2