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Changes in the wage structure in EU countries

Christopoulou, Rebekka; Jimeno, Juan F.; Lamo, Ana - 2010

We study changes in the wage structures in nine EU countries over 1995-2002 and the role of demand, supply and institutional developments in shaping these changes. Using comparable cross-country microeconomic data, we compute for each country and at each decile of the wage distribution, the part...

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Skills and wage inequality in Greece : evidence from matched employer-employee data, 1995 - 2002

Christopoulou, Rebekka; Kosma, Theodora - 2011

This paper examines changes in the Greek wage distribution over 1995-2002 and the role of skills in these changes using a matched employer-employee data set. This data set enables us to account for firm heterogeneity and obtain a more refined picture of the impact of skills. The methodology...

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Changes in the Austrian structure of wages, 1996-2002 : evidence from linked employer-employee data

Pointner, Wolfgang; Stiglbauer, Alfred - 2010

Analyzing data from the Structure of Earnings Surveys we find that wage dispersion in Austria increased marginally between 1996 and 2002. There was an increase in the returns to education which accrued only to male workers. The positive effects of tenure and especially of experience on wages...

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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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Changes in the Czech wage structure : does immigration matter?

Dybczak, Kamil; Galuščák, Kamil - 2010

Using the Albrecht et al. (2003) version of the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition technique along the wage distribution, we find that immigrant workers do not affect changes in the Czech wage structure between 2002 and 2006 despite their substantial inflows. Instead, changes in the wage...

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The public sector pay gap in a selection of Euro area countries

Giordano, Raffaela; Depalo, Domenico; Pereira, Manuel … - 2011

We investigate the public-private wage differentials in ten euro area countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain). To account for differences in employment characteristics between the two sectors, we focus on micro data taken from EU-SILC....

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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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Demographics, labor market power and the spatial equilibrium

Furbach, Nina - 2024

This paper studies how demographics affect aggregate labor market power, the urban wage premium and the spatial concentration of population, I develop a quantitative spatial model in which labor market competitiveness depends on the demographic composition of the local workforce, Using highly...

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