Inter-Industry Wage Differentials In EU Countries: What Do Cross-Country Time Varying Data Add to the Picture?

Philip Du Caju, Gábor Kátay, Ana Lamo, Daphne Nicolitsas and Steven Poelhekke

Journal of the European Economic Association, 2010, vol. 8, issue 2-3, 478-486

Abstract: This paper documents the existence and main patterns of inter-industry wage differentials across a large number of industries for eight EU countries at two points in time (in general 1995 and 2002) and explores possible explanations for these patterns. The analysis uses the European Structure of Earnings Survey, an internationally harmonised matched employer-employee data set, to estimate industry wage differentials conditional on a rich set of employee, employer, and job characteristics. After investigating the possibility that unobservable employee characteristics lie behind conditional wage differentials, a hypothesis which cannot be accepted, the paper investigates the role of institutional, industry structure, and industry performance characteristics in explaining industry wage differentials. The results suggest that inter-industry wage differentials could reflect efficiency wages or rent-sharing mechanisms and that rent-sharing is more likely in industries with firm-level collective agreements and with higher-collective agreement coverage. (JEL: J31, J41, J51) (c) 2010 by the European Economic Association.

JEL-codes: J31 J41 J51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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