Inter-industry Wage Dispersion in Portugal: high but falling

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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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 53

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
• Subject: Inter-industry wage dispersion ; Portugal ; centralisation ; Sektorale Lohnstruktur ; Schätzung ; Tarifpolitik ; Portugal

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Hartog, Joop ; Pereira, Pedro Telhado ; Vieira, José António Cabral
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 1999

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20889
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