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Inter-industry wage differentials : how much does rent sharing matter?

Du Caju, Philip; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan - 2009

This paper investigates inter-industry wage differentials in Belgium, taking advantage of access to a unique matched employer-employee data set covering all the years from 1999 to 2005. Findings show the existence of large wage differentials among workers with the same observed characteristics...

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Understanding sectoral differences in downward real wage rigidity : workforce composition, institutions, technology and competition

Du Caju, Philip; Fuss, Catherine; Wintr, Ladislav - 2009

This paper examines whether differences in wage rigidity across sectors can be explained by differences in workforce composition, competition, technology and wage-bargaining institutions. We adopt the measure of downward real wage rigidity (DRWR) developed by Dickens and Goette (2006) and rely...

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Institutional features of wage bargaining in 23 European countries, the US and Japan

Du Caju, Philip; Gautier, Erwan; Momferatou, Daphne; … - 2008

This paper presents information on wage bargaining institutions, collected using a standardised questionnaire. Our data provide information from 1995 and 2006, for four sectors of activity and the aggregate economy, considering 23 European countries, plus the US and Japan. Main findings include...

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Inter-industry wage differentials in EU countries : what do cross-country time varying data add to the picture?

Du Caju, Philip; Kátay, Gábor; Lamo, Ana - 2010

This paper documents the existence and main patterns of inter-industry wage differentials across a large number of industries for 8 EU countries (Belgium, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, and Spain) at two points in time (in general 1995 and 2002) and explores possible...

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The incidence of nominal and real wage rigidity : an individual-based sectoral approach

Messina, Julián; Du Caju, Philip; Duarte, Cláudia Filipa - 2010

This paper presents estimates based on individual data of downward nominal and real wage rigidities for thirteen sectors in Belgium, Denmark, Spain and Portugal. Our methodology follows the approach recently developed for the International Wage Flexibility Project, whereby resistance to nominal...

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Downward nominal and real wage rigidity : survey evidence from European firms

Babecký, Jan; Du Caju, Philip; Kosma, Theodora; … - 2009

It has been well established that the wages of individual workers react little, especially downwards, to shocks that hit their employer. This paper presents new evidence from a unique survey of firms across Europe on the prevalence of downward wage rigidity in both real and nominal terms. We...

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Wage structure effects of international trade : evidence from a small open economy

Du Caju, Philip; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan - 2011

wage premium. The results also show that import penetration from low-income countries has a significant and negative impact … on the inter-industry wage differentials, while imports from high-income countries seem to have a more ambiguous impact … on the wage structure. The results suggest that trade with low-income and high-income countries has different effects on …

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