Inter-industry Wage Dispersion in Portugal: high but falling

Joop Hartog, Pedro Pereira and José Vieira

No 53, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper examines the size of inter-industry wage dispersion in Portugal and compares with other countries. We find that the country has a high inter-industry wage inequality compared with the European standard. Nevertheless, the dispersion reduced over the 1980s and the early 1990s along a process of centralisation of the wage setting. This finding may add to the emerging notion that centralisation reduces inter-industry wage dispersion.

Keywords: Inter-industry wage dispersion; centralisation; Portugal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 1999-08
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Published - published as 'Inter-industry Wage Dispersion in Portugal' in: Empirica, 2000, 27 (4), 353-364

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