Wage Structures, Employment Adjustments and Globalization

Foreword; D.Marsden & F.Rycx Introduction and Overview; D.Marsden & F.Rycx PART I: LABOUR TURNOVER FLOWS AND MOBILITY Labour Turnover and Wage Mobility: The Impact of the Legal Setting and Institutions; L.Cappellari Job and Worker Flows at the Firm Level; H.Dale-Olsen Summary of the Literature on Job Displacements in the US and EU: What We Know and What We Would Like to Know; T.Wachter Skill Mismatch in Europe; R.Böhem, I.Magda & M.Zweimüller PART II: WAGES, HUMAN RESOURCE STRATEGIES AND INSTITUTIONS Variability of Wages Across Sectors: How Much, Why and With What Consequences?; F.Rycx Rent Sharing: A Survey of Methodologies and Results; P.S.Martins Union effects on wages; A.Bryson Low-wage Employment and the Role of the Firm: An Agenda for Data and Research; W.Salverda Do Firms Compress the Wage Distribution?; A.R.Cardoso PART III: CONSEQUENCES OF GLOBALIZATION AND DATA CHALLENGES Labour Market Outcomes of Internationalization What Have we Learnt from Analyses of Microdata on Firms and their Employees?; T.Eriksson Development of Linked Employer-employee Data for EU Labour Market and Social Policy Analysis; T.Desai