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

by Marsden, David; Rycx, Franois

• ISBN13: 9780230251540
• ISBN10: 0230251544
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-05-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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 labor market outcomes of internationalization.

Author Biography

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'Economie 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 organizations.
Francois Rycx is Associate Professor of Economics at the Universite 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 Insitute 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	p. vii
List of Tables	p. viii
Foreword	p. ix
Notes on Contributors	p. x
Introduction and Overview	p. 1
Labour Turnover Flows and Mobility
Labour Turnover and Wage Mobility: The Impact of the Legal Setting and Institutions	p. 17
Job and Worker Flows at the Firm Level	p. 37
Summary of the Literature on Job Displacement in the US and EU: What We Know and What We Would like to Know	p. 64
Skill Mismatch in Europe	p. 122
Wages, Human Resource Strategies and Institutions
Variability of Wages across Sectors: How Much, Why and with What Consequences?	p. 155
Rent Sharing: A Survey of Methodologies and Results	p. 166
Union Effects on Wages	p. 174
Low-Wage Employment and the Role of the Firm: An Agenda for Data and Research	p. 185
Do Firms Compress the Wage Distribution?	p. 202
Consequences of Globalization and Data Challenges
Labour Market Outcomes of Internationalization - What Have We Learnt from Analyses of Microdata on Firms and Their Employees?	p. 221
Development of Linked Employer-Employee Data for EU Labour Market and Social Policy Analysis	p. 244
Index	p. 267
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