This paper shows that the use of performance pay schemes has risen substantially across Europe from fewer than one-fifth in 2000 up to one-third in 2015, using data from the European Working Conditions Survey and the Structure of Earnings Survey enriched with external contextual data. This...

Much of the literature on wage inequality describes increases in wage inequality over time driven by seemingly unstoppable forces of technological change and globalisation, widening the gaps between workers and disadvantaging the lower paid. At the same time institutional protection has...

Using a rich and comparable micro-data set, we analyse international differences in gender pay gaps in the private sector for a sample of five European economies: Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Italy and Spain. Using different methods, we examine how wage structure, differences in the distribution...

This paper proposes an empirical approach to decompose the distributional effects of minimum wages into effects for workers moving out of employment, workers moving into employment, and workers continuing in employment. We estimate the effects of the minimum wage on the hazard rate for wages,...

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...

We study differences in contributory and non-contributory welfare benefit receipt between immigrants and natives for 16 EU countries. In contrast to previous studies we analyse differences in benefit levels allowing for potentially different takeup rates between immigrants and natives and use...

Das Thema Nachhaltigkeit und deren Bewertung, insbesondere der ökologischen Komponente des Nachhaltigkeitsbegriffs, gewinnt auch in der Holz- und Möbelindustrie immer mehr an Bedeutung. Zugleich ist die Möbelindustrie ein nicht unerheblicher Verbraucher von Holz und Holzwerkstoffen. Für die...

Durch Energieeinsparungen in der Nutzungsphase eines Gebäudes gewinnen Produktions-, Konstruktions- und Entsorgungsphase eines Gebäudes immer mehr an Bedeutung. Für eine ganzheitliche Nachhaltigkeitsbewertung hat das Europäische Komitee für Normung (CEN) daher einen horizontalen Normensatz...

This paper compares the effects of intangible capital on wage formation among white-collar manufacturing workers using comparative data from three European countries: the Czech Republic, Finland and Norway. The analysis is undertaken in two steps. First, we explore the wage differentials and the...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of wage compression for the gender wage gap in Sweden during the period 1968-1991. We find that the effects of changes in the wage structure on women's wages have varied over time and have had partly counteracting effects. Changes in industry wage...