Changes in Wage Inequality in the Czech republic: New Evidence Using Linked Employer-Employee Data

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    Abstract

    In this paper, we look at the evolution of the change in the wage structure using a linked employer-employee dataset covering a large fraction of the Czech labor market over the period 1998-2006. We find evidence of slightly diminishing gender inequality and increasing returns to human capital. Moreover, exploiting the linked employer-employee character of the data set, we document changes in within-firm wage dispersion and between-firm dispersion. We investigate various hypotheses related to transition towards a market economy, increased domestic and international competition, an increasingly decentralized wage bargaining and a changing educational composition of the workforce to explain these patterns. We find some support that these factors have contributed to the changes in the Czech wage structure, although the latter is the most strongly associated with the observed changes in wage inequality
    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    Publikationsdato2008
    StatusUdgivet - 2008
    BegivenhedComparative Analysis of Enterprise Data - Budapest, Ungarn
    Varighed: 22 maj 200824 maj 2008
    Konferencens nummer: CAED 2008

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    KonferenceComparative Analysis of Enterprise Data
    NummerCAED 2008
    Land/OmrådeUngarn
    ByBudapest
    Periode22/05/200824/05/2008

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