How Wages Change: Micro Evidence from the International Wage Flexibility Project
How Wages Change: Micro Evidence from the International Wage Flexibility Project
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工资如何变化：国际工资灵活性项目的微观证据
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2006
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Melanie E. Ward
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William T. Dickens;Lorenz Goette;E. Groshen;Steinar Holden;Julián Messina;Mark Schweitzer;J. Turunen;Melanie E. Ward
参与工资制定的复杂制度如何影响工资变化？国际工资弹性项目提供了新的微观经济证据，说明连续工作者的工资如何变化。我们分析了来自16个国家的31个不同数据集的个人收入，从中我们获得了总共360个工资变化分布。我们发现，工人的工资变化存在显著差异。工资变化具有明显的非正态分布;它们紧密地聚集在中位数周围，也有许多极值。此外，几乎所有国家的工资分布都不对称，低于中位数。事实上，我们发现了名义和真实的工资刚性下降的证据。我们还发现，这两种刚性的程度在各国之间有很大差异。我们的研究结果表明，工会在工资谈判中的存在程度的变化在解释各国之间不同程度的刚性方面发挥了作用。
How do the complex institutions involved in wage setting affect wage changes? The International Wage Flexibility Project provides new microeconomic evidence on how wages change for continuing workers. We analyze individuals’ earnings in 31 different data sets from sixteen countries, from which we obtain a total of 360 wage change distributions. We find a remarkable amount of variation in wage changes across workers. Wage changes have a notably non-normal distribution; they are tightly clustered around the median and also have many extreme values. Furthermore, nearly all countries show asymmetry in their wage distributions below the median. Indeed, we find evidence of both downward nominal and real wage rigidities. We also find that the extent of both these rigidities varies substantially across countries. Our results suggest that variations in the extent of union presence in wage bargaining play a role in explaining differing degrees of rigidities among countries.