Policy, Institutional Factors and Earnings Mobility

Denisa Sologon and Cathal O'Donoghue

No 4151, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper uses ECHP and OECD data for 14 EU countries to explore the role of labour market factors in explaining cross-national differences in the dynamic structure of earnings: in permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility. Based on ECHP, minimum distance estimator is used to decompose earnings inequality into the permanent and transitory components and compute earnings mobility. The predicted components together with the institutional OECD data are used in a non-linear least squares setting to estimate the relationship between permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility, and labour market policy and institutional factors. The results revealed a highly complex framework, where institutions interact significantly not only with each other and with the overall institutional setting, but also with the macroeconomic shocks in shaping the pattern of the three labour market outcomes.

Keywords: labour market institutions; mobility; inequality; wage distribution; panel data; labour market policies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 D31 J08 J31 J50 J60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 108 pages
Date: 2009-04
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Published - published in: The European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2011, 8(2), pp. 175-202

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