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Establishment Size and the Dispersion of Wages : Evidence from European Countries
Lallemand, Thierry; Rycx, Francois - 2021
We investigate how the wage distribution differs among small and large establishments in four European countries. Findings show that within-establishment wage dispersion rises with size because large employers have a more diverse workforce. They also suggest that screening and monitoring costs...
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The Establishment-Size Wage Premium : Evidence from European Countries
Lallemand, Thierry; Plasman, Robert; Rycx, Francois - 2021
This study examines the magnitude and determinants of the establishment-size wage premium in five European countries using a unique harmonised matched employer-employee data set. Findings show the existence of a significant positive wage premium in all countries, even when controlling for labour...
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The structure of the permanent job wage premium : evidence from Europe
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2013
, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom. I find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010191293
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The structure of the permanent job wage premium : evidence from Europe
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2013
Using longitudinal data on individuals from the European Community Household Panel for thirteen countries during 1995-2001, I investigate the wage premium for permanent jobs relative to temporary jobs. For men, the wage premium for a permanent job is lower for older workers and native born...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223394
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The Private Sector Greek Labour Market During the Crisis
Kanellopoulos, Costas N - 2022
This article examines the effects of the economic crisis and the institutional reforms undertaken in the Greek private sector labour market using Social Security Fund (IKA) data. The data used are classified by the number of insured employees, their wages as well as the number of active firms....
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The Immigrant Earnings Disadvantage Across the Earnings and Skills Distributions : The Case of Immigrants from the EU's New Member States in Ireland
Barrett, Alan; McGuinness, Seamus; O'Brien, Martin - 2021
destinations. In this paper, we analyse the earnings of immigrants in Ireland from the NMS using a new large-scale dataset on … employees in Ireland. In so doing, we add to the emerging strand in the literature on immigrant earnings that looks beyond … determinant of the immigrant-native earnings gap for NMS immigrants in Ireland …
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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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Do skills matter for wage inequality? : policies to tackle wage inequality should focus on skills alongside reform of labor market institutions
Broecke, Stijn - 2016
Policymakers in many OECD countries are increasingly concerned about high and rising inequality. Much of the evidence (as far back as Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations) points to the importance of skills in tackling wage inequality. Yet a recent strand of the research argues that (cognitive)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434107
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Wage dispersion and technology : a firm-level analysis on European data
Cirillo, Valeria; Sostero, Matteo; Tamagni, Federico - 2016
Within-firm wage dispersion represents a relevant dimension of the overall wage inequality. A large stream of literature has analysed the wage-technology link without explicitly taking into account within-firm wage dispersion. In this work we aim to empirically investigate how technology affects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420639
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Gender wage gap trends in Europe : the role of occupational allocation and skill prices
Kaya, Ezgi - 2014
countries and in Ireland?. Furthermore, we find that a substantial part of the changes in the gender wage gaps in European …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010439721