Changes in the wage structure in EU countries.

Autor/inn/en	Christopoulou, Rebekka; Jimeno, Juan F.; Lamo, Ana
Institution	Europäische Zentralbank
Titel	Changes in the wage structure in EU countries. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Änderungen der Lohnstruktur in EU-Ländern.
Quelle	Frankfurt, Main (2010), 39 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	European Central Bank. Working paper series. 1199
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
ISSN	1725-2806
Schlagwörter	Bildungsertrag; Technologische Entwicklung; Altersstruktur; Einkommenseffekt; Globalisierung; Lohnentwicklung; Lohnstruktur; Arbeitsmigration; Beschäftigungsstruktur; Qualifikationsstruktur; Internationaler Vergleich; Geschlechterverteilung; Institution; Belgien; Deutschland; Griechenland; Irland; Italien; Niederlande; Spanien; Ungarn; Österreich
Abstract	"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 of the observed wage change that is due to changes in the composition of workers, employers, and jobs' characteristics, and the part due to changes in the returns to these characteristics. We find that composition effects derived from changes in age, gender or education of the labour force, largely exogenous to economic developments, had a minor contribution to the observed wage dynamics. In contrast, return and composition effects from characteristics likely driven by economic developments are found most relevant to explain the observed changes. We relate wages and their various components with macroeconomic and institutional trends and find that technology and globalisation are associated with wage increases; migration is associated with declines in wages; whereas the effect of labour market institutions has been mixed." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch; Sekundäranalyse; Längsschnitt. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1995 bis 2002. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2011/3