Wages and salaries represent the most important component of household disposable income. The aim of the article is to examine how the relationship between the shares of households' wages and final consumption expenditure in their gross disposable income has developed over the past 20 years. The...

A number of studies documents that minimum wage policies have the potential to reduce income inequality. The recently adopted EU Commission's proposal for a Directive on adequate minimum wages was supported by a detailed analysis of the social impacts of hypothetical minimum wage levels in...