This report analyses the trends in private-sector male and female wage dispersions and wage gaps up to 2005. The focus is on three central wage and salary earner groups : white-collar and blue-collar male and female workers in manufacturing industries and services sector male and female...

“Public Funding and Private Returns to Education - PURE” is a two-year EU-TSER financed research project that started on November 1, 1998. It involves as many as 15 European countries: Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain,...

This paper reports on four topics. To what extent are piece-rate systems used among manufacturing workers in Finland? What is the effect on the average pay level of using piece- versus time-rate systems? How much wage risk is associated with a piece-rate system? How much of the pay differential...