Cloth: 978-0-226-26160-7 | Electronic: 978-0-226-26184-3
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226261843.001.0001
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Focusing on labor market institutions and the supply and demand forces that affect wages, the papers compare patterns of earnings inequality and pay differentials in the United States, Australia, Korea, Japan, Western Europe, and the changing economies of Eastern Europe. Cross-country studies examine issues such as managerial compensation, gender differences in earnings, and the relationship of pay to regional unemployment.
From this rich store of data, the contributors attribute changes in relative wages and unemployment among countries both to differences in labor market institutions and training and education systems, and to long-term shifts in supply and demand for skilled workers. These shifts are driven in part by skill-biased technological change and the growing internationalization of advanced industrial economies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction and Summary
I. Cross-Country Studies
1. A Comparison of Changes in the Structure of Wages in Four OECD Countries
2. International Differences in Executive and Managerial Compensation
3. The Gender Earnings Gap: Some International Evidence
4. International Wage Curves
II. Individual Country Studies
5. The Changing Structure of Male Earnings in Britain, 1974–1988
6. Real Wages, Employment, and Wage Dispersion in U.S. and Australian Labor Markets
7. Labor Markets and Economic Growth: Lessons from Korea’s Industrialization, 1970–1990
8. Wage Differentials in Italy: Market Forces, Institutions, and Inflation
9. The Swedish Wage Structure: The Rise and Fall of Solidarity Wage Policy?
10. Getting Together and Breaking Apart: The Decline of Centralized Collective Bargaining
11. Earnings Inequality in Germany
12. A Comparative Analysis of East and West German Labor Markets: Before and After Unification
Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index