This paper examines the role of worker and employer characteristics in the determination of wages in the Belgian private sector. Empirical findings, based on detailed matched employer-employee data covering the period 1995-2002, reveal the existence ceteris paribus of: i) a substantial but...

This paper simultaneously analyses the gender wage gap and the inter-industry wage differentials in the Belgian private sector. On the basis of the 1995 Structure of Earning Survey, we estimate the inter-industry wage differentials by gender and the gender wage gap by industry. We find...

RÉSUMÉ :La présente contribution explore les implications budgétaires attendue pour le Pouvoir fédéral et les Entitésfédérées suite à la 6ème réforme de l’Etat, en particulier le transfert de compétences et les modificationsapportées à la Loi Spéciale de Financement. La Loi...

This paper evaluates the extent of downward nominal and real wage rigidity for differentcategories of workers and firms using the methodology developed by the International WageFlexibility Project (IWFP). The analysis is based on an administrative data set on individualearnings, covering...

The article investigates the possible labour market and fiscal impacts of labour tax reductions within a macroeconometric model that allows for various wage responses to tax policies and to policy-induced price changes. As such, the model captures different institutional settings of wage...

This article uses detailed German household panel data to address important unresolved issuesrelated to task-biased technological change. Implementing a task-based model of occupationalemployment and earnings, results show that the task composition of occupations in 1985 issignificantly...