The Polish Wage Inequality Explosion

This paper presents and analyses the sharp increase in hourly wage inequality after 1998 inPoland. The increase was similar in magnitude to the much-studied increase in British wageinequality during the 1980s. Using data from the Polish Labour Force Survey, we find thisincrease to be associated with rising wage differentials and within-group variances at boththe upper and lower ends of the wage distribution...

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Year of publication:	2007-02-01
Authors:	Newell, Andrew ; Socha, Mieczysław W.
Institutions:	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn>
Subject:	Arbeit \| Labor \| Ungleichheit \| inequality aversion \| Lohn

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Extent:	512000 bytes 26 p. application/pdf
Series:	IZA - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit - Discussion Papers IZA Discussion Paper ; No. 2644 (2007)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	J31 - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials by Skill, Training, Occupation, etc ; P23 - Factor and Product Markets; Industry Studies; Population ; Pay salaries and social benefits ; Individual Working Papers, Preprints ; Poland
Source:	USB Cologne (business full texts)

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