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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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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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Wages, labor or prices : how do firms react to shocks?

Dhyne, Emmanuel; Druant, Martine - 2010

Survey results in 15 European countries for almost 15,000 firms reveal that Belgian firms react more than the average European firm to adverse shocks by reducing permanent and temporary employment. On the basis of a firm-level analysis, this paper confirms that the different reaction to shocks...

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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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