The Global Wage Report analyses the evolution of real wages around the world, giving a unique picture of wage trends … and relative purchasing power globally and by region. The 2014/15 edition examines the link between wages and inequality …

Wages are a major component of decent work, yet serious knowledge gaps remain in this increasingly important area. The … bargaining and in-work benefits, or the macroeconomic dimensions of wages. The report also contains a rich statistical appendix … wages -- 1 The global economic context: Crisis, recession and employment -- 1.1 Economic growth rates vary widely by region …

percent and 1 percent of the within-firm wage distribution rise substantially. Instead, the effect on average wages is small …

distribution in Sweden over the periods 1968-1981 and 1981-2000. The first period was the heyday of the Swedish solidarity wage … for firms to adjust wages to reflect conditions such as labor shortages in particular fields. The authors find a … remarkable narrowing of the wage distribution in the first period, but in the second period, wages grew more equally across the …

. During the second period, there was more scope for firm-specific factors to affect wages. We find a remarkable compression of … wages across the distribution in the first period, but in the second period, wage growth was quite uniform across the …

. During the second period, there was more scope for firm-specific factors to affect wages. We find a remarkable compression of … wages across the distribution in the first period, but in the second period, wage growth was quite uniform across the …