TY - BOOK ID - 10014 TI - Differences and changes in wage structures AU - Freeman, Richard B. AU - Katz, Lawrence F. PY - 1995 VL - *2 SN - 0226261603 9786611223434 1281223433 0226261840 9780226261843 9780226261607 PB - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, DB - UniCat KW - Wages KW - Case studies KW - Congresses KW - AA / International- internationaal KW - US / United States of America - USA - Verenigde Staten - Etats Unis KW - 332.26 KW - 338.021 KW - -331.21 KW - Compensation KW - Departmental salaries KW - Earnings KW - Pay KW - Remuneration KW - Salaries KW - Wage-fund KW - Wage rates KW - Working class KW - Income KW - Labor costs KW - Compensation management KW - Cost and standard of living KW - Prices KW - Loonevolutie. KW - Theorie van de lonen. KW - -Wages KW - Congresses. KW - -AA / International- internationaal KW - Costs, Labor KW - Employees KW - Payroll costs KW - Personnel costs KW - Costs KW - 331.21 KW - Case studies&delete& KW - Loonevolutie KW - Theorie van de lonen KW - Costs, Industrial KW - E-books KW - Wages - Case studies - Congresses KW - wages, wage structures, united states of america, usa, unskilled workers, labor, work, earnings, inequality, wealth gap, markets, institutions, australia, korea, japan, europe, international studies, unemployment, gender differences, managerial compensation, training, education, case study, employment, solidarity, germany, italy, great britain, sweden. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:10014 AB - During the past two decades, wages of skilled workers in the United States rose while those of unskilled workers fell; less-educated young men in particular have suffered unprecedented losses in real earnings. These twelve original essays explore whether this trend is unique to the United States or is part of a general growth in inequality in advanced countries. Focusing on labor market institutions and the supply and demand forces that affect wages, the papers compare patterns of earnings inequality and pay differentials in the United States, Australia, Korea, Japan, Western Europe, and the changing economies of Eastern Europe. Cross-country studies examine issues such as managerial compensation, gender differences in earnings, and the relationship of pay to regional unemployment. From this rich store of data, the contributors attribute changes in relative wages and unemployment among countries both to differences in labor market institutions and training and education systems, and to long-term shifts in supply and demand for skilled workers. These shifts are driven in part by skill-biased technological change and the growing internationalization of advanced industrial economies. ER -