How wages change: Micro evidence from the International Wage Flexibility Project

被引：176
作者：
Dickens, William T.
Goette, Lorenz
Groshen, Erica L.
Holden, Steinar
Messina, Julian
Schweitzer, Mark E.
Turunen, Jarkko
Ward, Melanie E.
机构：
[1] Univ Zurich, CH-8006 Zurich, Switzerland
[2] Fed Reserve Bank New York, New York, NY 10045 USA
[3] Univ Oslo, N-0316 Oslo, Norway
[4] European Cent Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
[5] Univ Salerno, I-84100 Salerno, Italy
[6] Fed Reserve Bank Cleveland, Cleveland, OH 44114 USA
来源：
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES | 2007年 / 21卷 / 02期
关键词：
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;
D O I：
10.1257/jep.21.2.195
中图分类号：
F [经济];
学科分类号：
02 ;
摘要：
[No abstract available]
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页码：195 / 214
页数：20
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