Pay Inequalities in the European Community (eBook)

Butterworths European Studies

David Marsden, Christopher Saunders (Autoren)

Francois Duchene (Herausgeber)

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2014 | 1. Auflage
384 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-1-4831-9239-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Pay Inequalities in the European Community presents a comparative analysis of the distribution of earnings from employment in six countries of the European Economic Community: Britain, Belgium, France, the federal Republic of Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. The text covers aspects of the inequality of pay among individual workers: inequality between sectors and industries in the economy; between occupations and between men and women; assessment of the relative importance of the elements in inequality; and factors which may underlie differences in the patterns of distribution between countries such as training and promotion systems, trade union bargaining policies and institutions, and income policies. Economists, labor specialists, and researchers will find the book a good source of information.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Pay Inequalities in the European Community 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 12
Dedication 6
Preface 8
Abbreviations and conventions 10
CHAPTER ONE. Preliminaries 16
1.1 What the book is about 16
1.2 Basic concepts and data sources 18
1.3 Pay and price trends in the 1970s 22
1.4 Levels of pay and labour costs in money and purchasing power 24
Notes 28
CHAPTER TWO. The comparative dispersions of individual earnings 30
2.1 Introduction 30
2.2 The distribution of pay in industry in 1972 32
2.3 Pay dispersions in distribution and finance 45
2.4 The dispersion of earnings in agriculture 51
2.5 A wider and longer-term view of pay dispersions 53
2.6 The incidence of direct taxes on pay inequalities 73
2.7 Summary 76
Effects of the choice of pay period on dispersions 79
CHAPTER THREE. Differentials between industries and sectors 90
3.1. Labour cost and pay differentials between branches of industry 90
3.2 Branch differentials in industry and some factors underlying them 111
3.3 Pay dispersions within industries 111
3.4 Pay in distribution and finance compared with industry 117
3.5 Earnings in agriculture compared with industry 117
3.6 Trends in industry differentials 118
3.7 Winning and losing branches in the 1970s: manual men in industry 123
3.8 Winners and losers in British industry: manual men 125
3.9 Branch differentials in Britain - industrial and non-industrial sectors: all labour markets 127
3.10 France: relative pay trends in some non-industrial sectors 1972–1977 135
3.11 West Germany: relative pay trends in some non-industrial sectors 137
3.12 Belgium and the Netherlands : sectoral differentials 138
3.13 Summary 138
APPENDIX TO CHAPTER THREE 146
CHAPTER FOUR. Occupational differentials 148
4.1 Introduction 148
4.2 Occupational differentials in industry in 1972 149
4.3 Occupational differentials in distribution and banking in 1974 159
4.4 A comparison of pay between industry, distribution and banking 165
4.5 A note on occupational pay in certain sectors in Italy 168
4.6 A brief historical survey of the evolution of skill differentials among manual workers 170
4.7 The evolution of occupational differentials in Great Britain 174
4.8 The evolution of occupational differentials in West Germany 186
4.9 The evolution of occupational differentials in France 195
4.10 The evolution of occupational differentials in Italy 205
4.11 Linkages between movements in occupational pay through time 214
4.12 Summary and conclusions 222
APPENDIX 4.1: The occupational classifications used by Eurostat 225
APPENDIX 4.2: A note on the historical sources used for France, Great Britain, Germany and the USA 229
Construction 229
CHAPTER FIVE. The pay differential for women 233
5.1 The women's average pay differential 233
5.2 The narrowing of the women's pay differential 236
5.3 Differential working hours 239
5.4 The effect of age distribution on the women's differential 240
5.4 The effect of age distribution on the women's differential 240
5.5 The influence of the industrial distribution 242
5.6 The influence of occupational distribution 246
5.7 Part-time work and pay 251
5.7 Summary and conclusions 252
CHAPTER SIX. Interrelationships in the industrial pay structure 256
6.1 Introduction 256
6.2 A comparison of the variation of earnings with different factors 258
6.3 Differences between the four labour markets 263
6.4 Stability over time: comparisons with 1966 271
6.5 Comparisons within selected industries 273
6.6 The nature of the interactions 275
6.7 The unexplained residuals of the dispersions 280
6.8 Fluctuations in earnings and their effect upon dispersions 284
6.9 Two aggregate theories of fluctuations in earnings 290
6.10 Summary and conclusions 291
The components of the variance method used in Chapters 6 and 7 293
CHAPTER SEVEN. Training, mobility and the pay structure 309
7.1 Introduction 309
7.2 A broader statistical analysis 310
7.3 Manual men 311
7.4 Manual women 322
7.5 Non-manual men 334
7.6 Non-manual women 345
7.7 Summary and conclusions 354
CHAPTER EIGHT. Reflections 358
8.1 International dissimilarities in patterns of pay 359
8.2 Changes in pay structures over time 362
APPENDIX: Main statistical sources 365
A.1 European Community Sources 365
A.2 The British New Earnings Survey (NES) 370
Postscript — June 1981 372
Summary 376
Notes 376
Index 378

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.5.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Arbeitsrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Finanzierung
• Themenwelt: Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Spezielle Betriebswirtschaftslehre ► Bankbetriebslehre
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• ISBN-10: 1-4831-9239-3 / 1483192393
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4831-9239-0 / 9781483192390