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Understanding inter-industry wage structures in the euro area

Genre, Véronique; Kohn, Karsten; Momferatou, Daphne - 2009

This paper focuses on the euro area wage structure and its potential determinants from a sectoral viewpoint. Merging information from the OECD Structural Analysis database with data from the EU Labour Force Survey, we construct a cross-country panel of 22 industries in 8 euro area countries for...

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What are the main obstacles to hiringafter recessions in Europe?

Savšek, Simon - 2018

firms and studies how they depend on firm's characteristics. Findings suggest that the main obstacles to hiring in Europe …

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Time-varying agglomeration economies and aggregate wage growth

Berson, Clémence; Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Gobillon, … - 2024

We examine how agglomeration economies have influenced labour earnings in France over forty years. First, we define cities dynamically to account for their changing footprints. Our findings show that aggregate wage growth is mainly driven by growth in larger cities, rather than smaller ones or...

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Immigrants and the distribution of income and wealth in the euro area : first facts and implications for monetary policy

Dossche, Maarten; Kolndrekaj, Aleksandra; Propst, Maximilian - 2022

country of residence ("natives") vs. those born in other EU and non- EU countries ("immigrants"). The differences in wealth … are more substantial than the differences in wages and incomes: immigrants earn on average about 30% lower wages than … immigrants-around 30%-can be explained by differences in demographics (age, gender, marital status, education, occupation, sector …

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How are firms’ wages and prices linked : survey evidence in Europe

Druant, Martine; Fabiani, Silvia; Kézdi, Gábor; Lamo, Ana - 2009

This paper presents new evidence on the patterns of price and wage adjustment in European firms and on the extent of nominal rigidities. It uses a unique dataset collected through a firm-level survey conducted in a broad range of countries and covering various sectors. Several conclusions are...

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

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

hit their employer. This paper presents new evidence from a unique survey of firms across Europe on the prevalence of …

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The determination of wages of newly hired employees : survey evidence on internal versus external factors

Galuščák, Kamil; Keeney, Mary; Nicolitsas, Daphne - 2010

This paper uses information from a rich firm-level survey on wage and price-setting procedures, in around 15,000 firms in 15 European Union countries, to investigate the relative importance of internal versus external factors in the setting of wages of newly hired workers. The evidence suggests...

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Price, wage and employment response to shocks : evidence from the WDN survey

Bertola, Giuseppe; Dabusinskas, Aurelijus; Hoeberichts, … - 2010

This paper analyses information from survey data collected in the framework of the Eurosystem's Wage Dynamics Network (WDN) on patterns of firm-level adjustment to shocks. We document that the relative intensity and the character of price vs. cost and wage vs. employment adjustments in response...

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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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Trade with central and eastern Europe : is it really a threat to wages in the west?

Polgár, Éva Katalin; Wörz, Julia - 2010

intra and inter-industry trade as well as between trade from western and eastern Europe and we try to assess the relative …, imports from the west generally benefit wages in central and eastern Europe, while imports from the east rather tend to harm …

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