How Wages Change: Micro Evidence from the International Wage Flexibility Project

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ID Serval
serval:BIB_AE7B7C4E6158
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Titre
How Wages Change: Micro Evidence from the International Wage Flexibility Project
Périodique
Journal of Economic Perspectives
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Dickens B., Goette L., Groshen E., Holden S., Messina J., Schweitzer M., Turunen J., Ward M.
ISSN
0895-3309
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2007
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
21
Numéro
2
Pages
195 - 214
Langue
anglais
Résumé
Workers' wages are not set in a spot market. Instead, the wages of most workers -- at least those who do not switch jobs -- typically change only annually and are mediated by a complex set of institutions and factors such as contracts, unions, standards of fairness, minimum wage policy, transfers of risk, and incomplete information. The goal of the International Wage Flexibility Project (IWFP) -- a consortium of over 40 researchers with access to individual workers' earnings data for 16 countries -- is to provide new microeconomic evidence on how wages change for continuing workers. We investigate the extent of wage flexibility, with a particular focus on the extent of downward wage rigidity; and explore how measures of wage flexibility are affected by the wage-setting regimes that typically vary by country.
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