Analýza mezd a vybraných ukazatelů v zemích OECD

Analysis of Wages and Selected Indicators in OECD Countries

Diana Bílková

Politická ekonomie, 2019, vol. 2019, issue 2, 133-156

Abstract: The research database consists of the OECD countries except Iceland, Latvia and Turkey, which were excluded because of insufficient data. The primary objective of the study is to group the countries according to their average wage, GDP per capita, minimum wage and unemployment rate. Another objective, of no less importance, is to determine which of the three remaining above variables significantly affect the average wage, while defining the type and strength of this relationship. Yet another important goal is to develop forecasts of the wage level and GDP per capita for each OECD country by 2020. In terms of clustering OECD countries by the four variables, the Czech Republic always ranks alongside Chile and three post-communist countries, Estonia, Hungary and Poland. GDP per capita is the only explanatory variable significantly affecting the average wage. The dependence of these two variables is represented by a second-order polynomial (concave parabola), the selected regression parabola explaining approximately 88 percent of the variability in the observed levels of the average annual wage. The conversion of the average wage, GDP per capita and minimum wage to purchasing power parity allows consideration of different price levels and thus comparison of purchasing power parity of the population in different countries.

Keywords: wages in OECD countries; GDP in OECD countries; cluster analysis; Ward's method; Euclidean distance; stepwise regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 C35 C38 E24 E25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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