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Diverging Developments in Wage Inequality: Which Institutions Matter?

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This article investigates how a particular wage-bargaining institution mitigates pressures from growing international competition and new production techniques and affects the degree of wage inequality growth. The extent to which industry-wide wage minima (wage scales) cover both higher and lower skilled workers affects developments in inequality. A series of cross-sectional time-series analyses are conducted using data from a recent unpublished data set from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which covers 14 OECD countries from 1980 to 2002. The results strongly indicate that the presence of industry-wide wage scales is a key factor in the evolution of wage inequality across OECD countries

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Comparative Political Studies

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California : Sage Publications., 2008

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English

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0010-4140

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Vol. 41, No. 12, December 2008. Page 1551-1582

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Inequality
Pay Inequality
Wage-bargaining Institutions
OECD countries
Diverging Developments in Wage Inequality

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