Wage Structures, Employment Adjustments and Globalization: Evidence from Linked and Firm-level Panel Data

by D. Marsden (Editor), F. Rycx (Editor)

Overview

This volume examines the development of linked and panel data sets for European labour market and social policy analysis, with special focus on labour turnover flows and mobility, the role of labour market institutions and firms' human resource strategies in relation to wages, and the labour market outcomes of internationalization.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230251540
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	04/21/2010
Series:	Applied Econometrics Association Series
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	273
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

DAVID MARSDEN is Professor of Industrial Relations at the London School of Economics, UK, and a Research Associate of the Centre for Economic Performance. He did his doctoral work at the Laboratoire d'Économie et de Sociologie du Travail (CNRS), Aix-en-Provence, where he developed his interest in the comparative study of labour markets and labour institutions, and how these affect the internal workings of organisations

FRANÇOIS RYCX is Associate Professor of Economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium. He is affiliated to the Centre Emile Bernheim (CEB) and the Department of Applied Economics of ULB (DULBEA), Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, and a national correspondent of the Applied Econometrics Association. His research is concerned with labour, personnel and international economics

Table of Contents

List of Figures vii

List of Tables viii

Foreword David Marsden François Rycx ix

Notes on Contributors x

Introduction and Overview David Marsden François Rycx 1

Part I Labour Turnover Flows and Mobility

1 Labour Turnover and Wage Mobility: The Impact of the Legal Setting and Institutions Lorenzo Cappellari 17

2 Job and Worker Flows at the Firm Level Harald Dale-Olsen 37

3 Summary of the Literature on Job Displacement in the US and EU: What We Know and What We Would like to Know Till von Wachter 64

4 Skill Mismatch in Europe René Böheim Iga Magda Martina Zweimüller 122

Part II Wages, Human Resource Strategies and Institutions

5 Variability of Wages across Sectors: How Much, Why and with What Consequences? François Rycx 155

6 Rent Sharing: A Survey of Methodologies and Results Pedro S. Martins 166

7 Union Effects on Wages Alex Bryson 174

8 Low-Wage Employment and the Role of the Firm: An Agenda for Data and Research Wiemer Salverda 185

9 Do Firms Compress the Wage Distribution? Ana Rute Cardoso 202

Part III Consequences of Globalization and Data Challenges

10 Labour Market Outcomes of Internationalization - What Have We Learnt from Analyses of Microdata on Firms and Their Employees? Tor Eriksson 221

11 Development of Linked Employer-Employee Data for EU Labour Market and Social Policy Analysis Tanvi Desai 244

Index 267