Wage persistence and labour market institutions: an analysis of young European workers
Menezes, Antonio ; Sciulli, Dario ; Cabral Vieira, Jose A.
Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn
IZA - Bonn
2007
11 p.
labour market ; statistics ; wages ; young worker
Discussion Paper Series
2627
Wages and wage payment systems
English
Bibliogr.
"This paper investigates the effects of labour market institutions on wage persistence among young European workers at the beginning of their careers. We use ECHP data from 1995 to 2001 for 13 EU countries and estimate a three-level random intercept probit model that allows for unobserved heterogeneity both at the individual and country level. Overall, we find that labour market institutions explain wage persistence. In particular, we find that a high level of employment protection legislation and a high level of bargaining centralization increase wage persistence."
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