Increased sorting and wage inequality in the Czech Republic. New evidence using linked employer-employee dataset.

Autor/inn/en	Eriksson, Tor; Pytliková, Mariola; Warzynski, Frédéric
Titel	Increased sorting and wage inequality in the Czech Republic. New evidence using linked employer-employee dataset.
Quelle	In: Economics of transition, 21 (2013) 2, S. 357-380 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0967-0750; 1468-0351
DOI	10.1111/ecot.12014
Schlagwörter	Auslandsinvestition; Außenhandel; Betrieb; Struktur; Strukturwandel; Wirtschaft; Multinationales Unternehmen; Osteuropa; Qualifikationsstruktur; Lohnstruktur; Lohnentwicklung; Einkommensunterschied; Transformation; Bildungsertrag; Bildungsertrag; Einkommensunterschied; Transformation; Auslandsinvestition; Außenhandel; Einkommenseffekt; Interner Arbeitsmarkt; Lohnentwicklung; Lohnstruktur; Multinationales Unternehmen; Strukturwandel; Wirtschaft; Erwerbstätiger; Qualifikationsstruktur; Geschlechtsspezifik; Struktur; Betrieb; Osteuropa; Tschechische Republik
Abstract	This paper makes use of a linked employer-employee dataset to examine the evolution of wage inequality in the Czech Republic during 1998-2006. We find evidence of slightly increasing returns to human capital and diminishing gender inequality and document sharp increases in both within-firm and between-firm inequality. We investigate several hypotheses to explain these patterns: increased domestic and international competition, decentralized wage bargaining, skill-biased technological change and a changing educational composition of the workforce. Domestic competition is found to lower within-firm inequality whereas we find no evidence that increased international trade at the industry level is associated with higher betweenor within-firm wage inequality. The key factors driving the observed increase in wage inequality are increased educational sorting and the inflow of foreign firms to the Czech Republic. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2013/3