The World Bank Bureaucracy Lab seeks to promote the use of evidence and technology in the study of the civil service through the creation of new datasets, diagnostic instruments, and knowledge products to improve World Bank policy advice and operations.
The Worldwide Bureaucracy Indicators (WWBI) is a unique cross-national dataset on public sector employment and wages developed by the World Bank's Bureaucracy Lab to better enable researchers, development practitioners, and policymakers to identify and implement evidenced-based reforms. Indicators within the WWBI cover five dimensions of the public sector workforce: the size and demographics of the private and public sector workforces; public sector wage premium, gender pay gaps; pay compression ratios; and the public sector wage bill.
The entire STATA code used in cleaning and estimation for have been archived on GitHub here.
More information about the World Bank Worldwide Bureaucracy Indicators including an online data visualization dashboard can be found here:
The dataset and a detailed explanatory note/codebook are publicly available in the World Bank Data Catalog here: https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/dataset/worldwide-bureaucracy-indicators