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Gross Earning Inequalities in OECD Countries and Major Non-member Economies: Determinants and Future Scenarios
Braconier, Henrik; Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014
Income and earning inequality has been on the rise in most of the OECD and in many emerging economies since the 1980s. This paper estimates a model of earnings inequality across OECD countries that incorporates determinants of relative demand and supply of more and less-skilled labour. Drawing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276956
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Making the Labour Market Work Better in Poland
Boulhol, Hervé - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014
Poor labour-market outcomes remain one of Poland’s major structural weaknesses, impeding firms’ competitiveness and the nation’s potential output. Boosting employment prospects is also critical, as the country will soon be ageing at a fast pace. Despite long working hours, labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276966
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Boosting Productivity in Russia: Skills, Education and Innovation
Demmou, Lilas; Wörgötter, Andreas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2015
reductions and minimisation of non-wage labour costs. Workers react by changing jobs. This results in a high and stable overall … human capital and productivity improvements.<P> While educational attainment is very high, the education system needs to be … education are unequally distributed. Adequate funding for education institutions is not assured everywhere while inefficiencies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276999
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The Wage Effects of Schooling under Socialism and in Transition: Evidence from Romania, 1950-2000
Andren, Daniela; Earle, John S.; Sapatoru, Dana - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2004
-specific accounts sometimes offered (wage liberalization, border opening, increased quality of education). But we find some support for … institutional and organizational explanations, particularly the high productivity of education in restructuring and entrepreneurial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005116762
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The Jobs Challenge in Poland: Policies to Raise Employment
Burns, Andrew; Kowalski, Przemyslaw - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2004
With almost 50 per cent of the working age population not working, improving labour market performance represents an essential and daunting challenge for Poland. While some of today’s joblessness is cyclical in nature, most of it appears to be structural. This paper argues that to increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046206
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International Trade and Individual Labour Market Perspectives: A Micro-Level Analysis of German Manufacturing Workers
Lurweg, Maren; Uhde, Nicole - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
probability of becoming unemployed rises when workers are employed in Trade Sensitive industries and decreases for workers in …, but they are relatively small. The personal characteristics of workers seem to exert a substantial effect on employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008522630
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Increased Opportunity to Move up the Economic Ladder?: Earnings Mobility in EU: 1994-2001
Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
Do EU citizens have an increased opportunity to improve their position in the distribution of earnings over time? This question is answered by exploring short and long-term wage mobility for males across 14 EU countries between 1994 and 2001 using ECHP. Mobility is evaluated using rank measures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008479306
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Equalizing or Disequalizing Lifetime Earnings Differentials?: Earnings Mobility in the EU: 1994-2001
Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
Do EU citizens have an increased opportunity to improve their position in the distribution of lifetime earnings? To what extent does earnings mobility work to equalize/disequalize longerterm earnings relative to cross-sectional inequality and how does it differ across the EU? Our basic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008549991
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Do Labour Market Institutions Matter?: Micro-Level Wage Effects of International Outsourcing in Three European Countries
Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger; Munch, Jakob Roland - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017454
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Dynamics of Earnings and Hourly Wages in Germany
Myck, Michal; Ochmann, Richard; Qari, Salmai - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
There is by now a vast number of studies which document a sharp increase in crosssectional wage inequality during the 2000s. It is often assumed that this inequality is of a "permanent nature" which in turn is used as an argument calling for government intervention. We examine these claims using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018691