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Wage inequality in Spain: recent developments

Izquierdo, Mario; Lacuesta, Aitor - 2007

This paper analyses wage inequality in Spain from 1995 to 2002. Inequality has decreased slightly in this period … on inequality of changes in the composition of the labour force and changes in relative returns. We focus mainly on three … tenure level. On one hand, changes in the composition of the labour force would have increased inequality had the structure …

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Help wanted: The drivers and implications of labour shortages

Groiss, Martin; Sondermann, David - 2023

Labour shortages have become prevalent across advanced economies. Yet, little is known about which firms are more likely to face them and the impact they have on the labour market. We create a firm-level data set spanning 28 EU countries, 283 regions and 18 sectors, contributing to close this...

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Wage bargaining regimes and firms' adjustments to the Great Recession

Ronchi, Maddalena; Di Mauro, Filippo - 2017

-distributed database which merges data related to wage bargaining institutions (Wage Dynamic Network, WDN) with data on firm productivity …

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Asymmetric wage adjustment and employment in European firms

Marotzke, Petra; Anderton, Robert; Bairrao, Ana; … - 2017

We explore the impact of wage adjustment on employment with a focus on the role of downward nominal wage rigidities. We use a harmonised survey dataset, which covers 25 European countries in the period 2010-2013. These data are particularly useful for this paper given the firm-level information...

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Do public wages in the euro area explain private wage developments? An empirical investigation

Attinasi, Maria Grazia; Berardini, Francesco; Palazzo, … - 2019

This paper investigates the relationship between public and private wages in the five largest euro area countries for the period 1997-2017. The analysis shows that there exists a positive and significant response of private wages to a public wage shock. This effect is found to be temporary and...

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The wage-price pass-through in the euro area: Does the growth regime matter?

Hahn, Elke - 2020

This paper explores whether the transmission mechanism between wages and prices in the euro area is affected by the growth regime. Since the great financial crisis inflation developments have posed major puzzles to economists as inflation declined by less than was widely expected during the past...

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Wages, compositional effects and the business cycle

Christodoulopoulou, Styliani; Kouvavas, Omiros - 2022

During the Great Recession, unemployment increased substantially across several euro area countries, with wages exhibiting a muted response. As low skilled workers lose their jobs first during a recession, the remaining employed workers result in a relatively more skilled employment pool. This...

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What can changes in structural factors tell us about unemployment in Europe?

Morgan, Julian; Mourougane, Annabelle - 2001

This paper examines the impact of temporal variation in labour market institutions and other structural factors on …

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Aggregation and euro area Phillips curves

Fabiani, Silvia; Morgan, Julian - 2003

This paper examines the issue of the impact of aggregation in the empirical analysis of euro area labour markets. A Phillips Curve describing the adjustment of unit labour costs is estimated at the national and aggregate level for the 5 largest euro area countries. Potential sources of...

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Banking consolidation and small business lending

Takáts, Elod - 2004

The paper investigates small business lending as an information problem. It models the effects of information asymmetries within the bank combined with fixed wages. Two kinds of inefficiencies arise in equilibrium: the credit officer either sometimes shirks or he is occasionally fired. In both...

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