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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832004
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008657117
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013367109
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Culture and household saving
Guin, Benjamin - 2017
This paper examines the role of culture in households' saving decisions. Exploiting the historical language borders … within Switzerland, I isolate the effect of households' exposure to certain language groups from economic, institutional … French-speaking part. In line with the existing literature, I show that these differences across language regions are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011656184
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Labour market adjustments in Europe and the US : how different?
Beyer, Robert; Smets, Frank - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516557
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Wealth differences across borders and the effect of real estate price dynamics : evidence from two household surveys
Mathä, Thomas; Porpiglia, Alessandro; Ziegelmeyer, Michael - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010382063
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003825968
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003970440
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003971260
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003972857