International Journal of Manpower: Volume 24 Issue 4

Introduction: Competitive versus non‐competitive wage differentials

Danièle Meulders, Robert Plasman, François Rycx

This paper introduces the Special Issue on competitive versus non‐competitive wage differentials, a collection of papers originally presented at the 79th Conference of the Applied…

Firm wage differentials in a competitive industry: some matched‐panel evidence

Pedro S. Martins

Studies wage dispersion across firms and time in a specific industry that exhibits competitive features – the Portuguese clothing industry in the 1991‐1994 period. By drawing on a…

Industry wage differentials and the bargaining regime in a corporatist country

François Rycx

This paper examines the role of the bargaining regime in bringing about inter‐industry wage differentials in the Belgian private sector. Empirical findings, based on the 1995…

Industry wage differentials: how many, big and significant are they?

Kevin T. Reilly, Luisa Zanchi

In this paper, three implementation and interpretation issues are examined associated with Krueger and Summers' method for calculating inter‐industry wage differentials. The…

Insider power and wage determination in Bulgaria: an econometric investigation

Sabien Dobbelaere

Using a unique three‐digit firm‐level data set of all medium‐ and large‐sized manufacturing enterprises in Bulgaria covering the years 1997/1998, and investigation is conducted…

Rent sharing as firm‐level pay

Hannu Piekkola, Antti Kauhanen

The aim of this paper is to examine rent sharing under a heterogeneous workforce using Finnish linked employer‐employee data in 1987‐1998. Rent sharing is one component of the…

Performance pay, monitoring environments, and establishment performance

Richard Belfield, David Marsden

This study uses cross‐section and panel data from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey to explore contextual influences on the relationship between performance‐related pay…

Pay inequalities and team performance: Empirical evidence from the North American major leagues

Bernd Frick, Joachim Prinz, Karina Winkelmann

Wage disparities and their consequences have long been a topic of economic research. While most papers focus on describing the development of wage differentials over time and seek…