Wage and Income Inequality in the European Union
This report, provided by Policy Department A for the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, summarises the results of the project “Wage Dispersion in the European Union”. It has three objectives: first, to describe the recent evolution of wage dispersion across EU member states using different definitions of labour earnings and inequality measures; second, to analyse the relationship between wage dispersion and labour market institutions related to collective bargaining and minimum wages taking into account recent policy reforms; and, last, to evaluate the impact of changes in wage inequality on overall income distribution in the EU.
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Christian DREGER (DIW Berlin) ; Enrique LÓPEZ-BAZO, Raul RAMOS, Vicente ROYUELA and Jordi SURIÑACH (Barcelona University)
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- collective bargaining
- distribution of income
- economic analysis
- economic geography
- economic policy
- ECONOMICS
- EMPLOYMENT AND WORKING CONDITIONS
- equal pay
- EU Member State
- GEOGRAPHY
- globalisation
- labour law and labour relations
- low pay
- minimum pay
- national accounts
- outsourcing
- personnel management and staff remuneration
- production
- PRODUCTION, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH
- statistics
- technological change
- technology and technical regulations
- wage determination