We investigate whether left-wing governments decrease wage inequality among civil servants. The data are based on the salaries of civil servants in the German states. Since a reform in 2006, German state governments are allowed to design salaries of civil servants. We employ encompassing data for pay levels and professions including judges, professors, policemen, and administrators and distinguish between levels of operating experiences. We use six wage inequality measures comparing salaries across pay levels and operating experiences. The results do not suggest that left-wing governments were more active in decreasing wage inequality among civil servants than the center or right-wing governments. Cabinet members are civil servants themselves and decide on their own salaries: government ideology is also not shown to predict the salaries of cabinet members. Because left-wing governments are perceived as taking action against income and wage inequality, future research should employ data from other federal states such as the United States to examine how government ideology influences the salaries of civil servants.

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左翼政府是否会减少公务员之间的工资不平等？来自德国国家的经验证据

我们调查左翼政府是否减少了公务员之间的工资不平等。数据基于德国各州公务员的工资。自 2006 年改革以来，德国各州政府被允许设计公务员的工资。我们使用包括法官、教授、警察和行政人员在内的薪酬水平和职业的全面数据，并区分不同的操作经验水平。我们使用六种工资不平等措施来比较不同薪酬水平和运营经验的工资。结果并不表明左翼政府在减少公务员工资不平等方面比中间政府或右翼政府更积极。内阁成员本身就是公务员，他们自己决定薪水：政府意识形态也无法预测内阁成员的薪水。由于左翼政府被认为正在对收入和工资不平等采取行动，未来的研究应该利用来自美国等其他联邦州的数据来研究政府意识形态如何影响公务员的工资。