Over the past few years, the EU labour market has shown remarkable resilience, despite a challenging economic context. From 2019 to 2023, employment among those aged 15 to 64 in the EU expanded by 5.8 million people. This increase was notably boosted by workers coming from non-EU countries. So...

The Labour Market and Wage Developments in Europe report provides an in-depth analysis of recent labour market and wage developments in the EU, the euro area and Member States, primarily from a macroeconomic perspective. This year's edition examines the recent performance of the EU labour market...

Over the past few years, the EU labour market has shown remarkable resilience, despite a challenging economic context. From 2019 to 2023, employment among those aged 15 to 64 in the EU expanded by 5.8 million people. This increase was notably boosted by workers coming from non-EU countries. So...

The Labour Market and Wage Developments in Europe report provides an in-depth analysis of recent labour market and wage developments in the EU, the euro area and Member States, primarily from a macroeconomic perspective. This year's edition examines the recent performance of the EU labour market...

This 2024 annual review of minimum wages provides a synopsis of minimum wage setting during 2023 in the EU27 and Norway. It reports in detail on the processes and outcomes of setting the minimum wage rates for 2024 and beyond. It investigates the extent to which minimum wage earners were...

This 2024 annual review of minimum wages provides a synopsis of minimum wage setting during 2023 in the EU27 and Norway. It reports in detail on the processes and outcomes of setting the minimum wage rates for 2024 and beyond. It investigates the extent to which minimum wage earners were...

Almost two years after the start of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, the EU economy is faring better than initially expected. GDP growth in 2022 reached 3.5 % in both the EU and the euro area, compared with initial forecasts of respectively 2.7 % (EU) and 2.3 % (euro area) in Spring...

Almost two years after the start of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, the EU economy is faring better than initially expected. GDP growth in 2022 reached 3.5 % in both the EU and the euro area, compared with initial forecasts of respectively 2.7 % (EU) and 2.3 % (euro area) in Spring...

The major findings of this study are as follows: (1) Simple cross section estimates grossly underestimate cohort profiles during the period 1960-70. Furthermore the growth in earnings is not uniform across experience groups and more recent vintages tend to have steeper profiles in most fields....

This paper examines the properties and prevalence of measurement error in longitudinal earnings data. The analysis compares Current Population Survey data to administrative Social Security payroll tax records for a sample of heads of households over two years. In contrast. to the typically...

About 30% of workers in the CPS have earnings imputed. Wage gap estimates are biased toward zero when the attribute being studied (e.g., union status) is not a criterion used to match donors to nonrespondents. An expression for "match bias" is derived in which attenuation equals the sum of match...

The survey explores the working arrangements and earnings that apprentices received during 2018-19. The survey included almost 10,000 telephone interviews with apprentices enrolled on a course in Great Britain. The report provides statistics on apprentices': working arrangements, basic hourly...

The survey explores the working arrangements and earnings that apprentices received during 2018-19. The survey included almost 10,000 telephone interviews with apprentices enrolled on a course in Great Britain. The report provides statistics on apprentices': working arrangements, basic hourly...

Since the turn of the millennium, the European Commission (Eurostat) has published detailed and harmonized information on the nominal wages paid by the employers to their employees. This information, collected with the support of the European Statistical System, provides important insights into...

Traditionally, analysts of the South African labour market have used household survey data to describe earnings and employment in the post-Apartheid period. More recently, administrative data from the South African Revenue Service has been made available, which allows for comparisons and an...

This paper describes the statistics reforms in Japan, especially in regard to gross domestic product and related statistics, that were meant to identify and then rectify the problems in Japanese government statistics. The paper then explains the recent revelation of serious errors in vital wage...

This dataset on remuneration of employment contains data on average annual wages per full-time and full-year equivalent employee in the total economy. Data are expressed in different units and are available starting from 1990.

We investigate the reliability of data from the Wage Indicator (WI), the largest online survey on earnings and working conditions. Comparing WI to nationally representative data sources for 17 countries reveals that participants of WI are not likely to have been representatively drawn from the...

Despite the booming German labor market, wage inequality is still a relevant issue. In the present study, the authors report on the changes in wages and their distribution between 1992 and 2016. In addition to real contractual gross hourly wages, we closely examined gross monthly and annual...

This dataset on remuneration of employment contains data on average annual wages per full-time and full-year equivalent employee in the total economy. Data are expressed in different units and are available starting from 1990.