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Wage Dispersion (wage + dispersion)

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Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting	60%

Selected Abstracts

Collective Bargaining and Wage Dispersion in Europe

BRITISH JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, Issue 1 2007
Carlo Dell'Aringa
The level at which collective bargaining takes place is usually considered important in determining wage levels and wage inequalities. Two different situations are considered: a first in which bargaining is only ,multi-employer', and a second in which it is ,multi-level', in the sense that workers can be covered by both a ,multi-employer' and a ,single-employer' contract at the same time. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of these different institutional settings on pay dispersion. The study is carried out using the European Structure of Earnings Survey, which is a large dataset containing detailed matched employer,employee information for the year 1995. The countries analysed are Italy, Belgium and Spain. The empirical results generally show that wages of workers covered by only a ,multi-employer' contract are no more compressed than those of workers covered by both ,multi-employer' and ,single-employer' contracts. This implies that where workers are not covered by single-employer bargaining, they receive wage supplements paid unilaterally by their employers. [source]

21st-century models of employee representation: structures, processes and outcomes

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS JOURNAL, Issue 4 2007
Andy Charlwood
ABSTRACT The 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey allows further exploration of the fate or workplace-based forms of employee representation charted by earlier surveys. We describe the occurrence and diversity of representational forms, union, non-union and ,hybrid', and the structural characteristics of workplaces where they are found. We go on to analyse a number of structural and processual differences and differences in outcomes. In particular, we try to estimate the effects of different forms for outcomes such as wage dispersion, procedural ,fairness' and productivity. The data show that ,hybrid' systems of union and non-union representation are associated with the best outcomes, therefore, notwithstanding the continuing decline in the diffusion of the ,traditional' union-based model of workplace representation, union presence is still a prerequisite for effective representation, while ,pure' non-union forms serve neither employee nor employer interests. [source]

Immigrant Wage Disadvantage in Sweden and the United Kingdom: Wage Structure and Barriers to Opportunity,

INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION REVIEW, Issue 3 2010
Christel Kesler
This article examines immigrant/native-born wage inequalities among workers in two Western European countries: Sweden, social democratic and with comparatively low wage dispersion, and the United Kingdom, economically liberal and with comparatively high wage dispersion. The analysis includes immigrants from 26 countries of origin. Findings demonstrate that inequalities in terms of real wages are smaller in more egalitarian Sweden. However, in terms of relative positions within the labor market, inequalities are if anything smaller in the UK. These findings highlight the role of wage dispersion in magnifying immigrant disadvantage, but also the limits of wage compression for ameliorating barriers to immigrant opportunity. [source]

Labor Mobility within China: Border Effects on Interregional Wage Differentials

CHINA AND WORLD ECONOMY, Issue 2 2010
Cheng Li
O53; R12; R23 Abstract Labor migration is institutionally restricted within China under the hukou system, China's registration system. However, what is the pecuniary impact of labor immobility on interregional wage inequality? To answer this question, we derive a simple wage gap equation including educational attainment, market potential and provincial border indicators. The regressions based on city and sector-level data show that, other things being equal, the wage dispersions within Chinese provincial borders are significantly less pronounced than those among provinces. Such border effects on spatial wage differentials, which have been shown to pervasively exist in all sectors considered in the present paper, reflect the distortions generated by migration controls. Finally, we show that despite the recent hukou reforms aimed at relaxing the restrictions on population movement, border effects appear to persisted over the period 2003,2005. [source]