Supply and demand, allocation and wage inequality: an international comparison

Arnaud Dupuy () and Lex Borghans

Applied Economics, 2005, vol. 37, issue 9, pages 1073-1088

Abstract: An allocation model of workers differentiated by their field of study is developed to test whether international differences in the wage structure can be explained by differences in labour demand and supply in each country. The model explicitly takes into account the effects of supply and demand shifts on the allocation structure to disentangle country specific differences in the recruitment for one occupation from real supply--demand effects. Empirical results based on data for nine countries show that cross-country differences in wage inequality explain at least two--third of the differences in labour demand and supply.

Date: 2005
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