Saunders / Marsden / Duchêne Pay Inequalities in the European Community

Butterworths European Studies
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4831-9239-0
Verlag: Elsevier Reference Monographs
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Saunders, Christopher

Marsden, David

Duchêne, François

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Pay Inequalities in the European Community;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents;12
5;Dedication;6
6;Preface;8
7;Abbreviations and conventions;10
8;CHAPTER ONE. Preliminaries;16
8.1;1.1 What the book is about;16
8.2;1.2 Basic concepts and data sources;18
8.3;1.3 Pay and price trends in the 1970s;22
8.4;1.4 Levels of pay and labour costs in money and purchasing power;24
8.5;Notes;28
9;CHAPTER TWO. The comparative dispersions of individual earnings;30
9.1;2.1 Introduction;30
9.2;2.2 The distribution of pay in industry in 1972;32
9.3;2.3 Pay dispersions in distribution and finance;45
9.4;2.4 The dispersion of earnings in agriculture;51
9.5;2.5 A wider and longer-term view of pay dispersions;53
9.6;2.6 The incidence of direct taxes on pay inequalities;73
9.7;2.7 Summary;76
9.8;Effects of the choice of pay period on dispersions;79
10;CHAPTER THREE. Differentials between industries and sectors;90
10.1;3.1. Labour cost and pay differentials between branches of industry;90
10.2;3.2 Branch differentials in industry and some factors underlying them;111
10.3;3.3 Pay dispersions within industries;111
10.4;3.4 Pay in distribution and finance compared with industry;117
10.5;3.5 Earnings in agriculture compared with industry;117
10.6;3.6 Trends in industry differentials;118
10.7;3.7 Winning and losing branches in the 1970s: manual men in industry;123
10.8;3.8 Winners and losers in British industry: manual men;125
10.9;3.9 Branch differentials in Britain - industrial and non-industrial sectors: all labour markets;127
10.10;3.10 France: relative pay trends in some non-industrial sectors 1972–1977;135
10.11;3.11 West Germany: relative pay trends in some non-industrial sectors;137
10.12;3.12 Belgium and the Netherlands : sectoral differentials;138
10.13;3.13 Summary;138
10.14;APPENDIX TO CHAPTER THREE;146
11;CHAPTER FOUR. Occupational differentials;148
11.1;4.1 Introduction;148
11.2;4.2 Occupational differentials in industry in 1972;149
11.3;4.3 Occupational differentials in distribution and banking in 1974;159
11.4;4.4 A comparison of pay between industry, distribution and banking;165
11.5;4.5 A note on occupational pay in certain sectors in Italy;168
11.6;4.6 A brief historical survey of the evolution of skill differentials among manual workers;170
11.7;4.7 The evolution of occupational differentials in Great Britain;174
11.8;4.8 The evolution of occupational differentials in West Germany;186
11.9;4.9 The evolution of occupational differentials in France;195
11.10;4.10 The evolution of occupational differentials in Italy;205
11.11;4.11 Linkages between movements in occupational pay through time;214
11.12;4.12 Summary and conclusions;222
11.13;APPENDIX 4.1: The occupational classifications used by Eurostat;225
11.14;APPENDIX 4.2: A note on the historical sources used for France, Great Britain, Germany and the USA;229
11.15;Construction;229
12;CHAPTER FIVE. The pay differential for women;233
12.1;5.1 The women's average pay differential;233
12.2;5.2 The narrowing of the women's pay differential;236
12.3;5.3 Differential working hours;239
12.4;5.4 The effect of age distribution on the women's differential;240
12.5;5.4 The effect of age distribution on the women's differential;240
12.6;5.5 The influence of the industrial distribution;242
12.7;5.6 The influence of occupational distribution;246
12.8;5.7 Part-time work and pay;251
12.9;5.7 Summary and conclusions;252
13;CHAPTER SIX. Interrelationships in the industrial pay structure;256
13.1;6.1 Introduction;256
13.2;6.2 A comparison of the variation of earnings with different factors;258
13.3;6.3 Differences between the four labour markets;263
13.4;6.4 Stability over time: comparisons with 1966;271
13.5;6.5 Comparisons within selected industries;273
13.6;6.6 The nature of the interactions;275
13.7;6.7 The unexplained residuals of the dispersions;280
13.8;6.8 Fluctuations in earnings and their effect upon dispersions;284
13.9;6.9 Two aggregate theories of fluctuations in earnings;290
13.10;6.10 Summary and conclusions;291
13.11;The components of the variance method used in Chapters 6 and 7;293
14;CHAPTER SEVEN. Training, mobility and the pay structure;309
14.1;7.1 Introduction;309
14.2;7.2 A broader statistical analysis;310
14.3;7.3 Manual men;311
14.4;7.4 Manual women;322
14.5;7.5 Non-manual men;334
14.6;7.6 Non-manual women;345
14.7;7.7 Summary and conclusions;354
15;CHAPTER EIGHT. Reflections;358
15.1;8.1 International dissimilarities in patterns of pay;359
15.2;8.2 Changes in pay structures over time;362
16;APPENDIX: Main statistical sources;365
16.1;A.1 European Community Sources;365
16.2;A.2 The British New Earnings Survey (NES);370
17;Postscript — June 1981;372
17.1;Summary;376
17.2;Notes;376
18;Index;378