Gender wage inequality in inclusive and exclusive industrial relations systems: a comparison of Argentina and Chile

Internal devaluation policies imposed in southern European countries since 2010 have weakened labour market institutions and intensified wage inequality and the falling wage share. The debate in the wake of the financial and economic crisis raised concerns about slow wage growth and persistent economic inequality. This article attempts to shed light on this debate, scrutinising the case of Portugal in the period 2010–2017. Mapping the broad developments at the national level, the article examines four sectors, looking in particular at the impact of minimum wages and collective bargaining on wage trends vis-à-vis wage inequality and wage share trajectories. We conclude that both minimum wage increases and the slight recovery of collective bargaining had a positive effect on wage outcomes and were important in reducing wage inequality. The extent of this reduction was limited, however, by uneven sectoral recovery dynamics and the persistent effects of precarious work, combined with critical liberalisation reforms.

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Gender Wage Inequality and Economic Growth: Is There Really a Puzzle?—A Comment

World Development ◽

10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.05.001 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 39 (8) ◽

pp. 1476-1484 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

Thomas Schober ◽

Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Wage Inequality ◽

Gender Wage Inequality

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Growth Dynamics and Gender Wage Inequality in Indian Agricultural Sector: Study across Various Population Hierarchies of Villages

Theoretical Economics Letters ◽

10.4236/tel.2016.63045 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 06 (03) ◽

pp. 407-415

Author(s):

Shashi Kant Srivastava ◽

Tuhin Sengupta

Keyword(s):

Wage Inequality ◽

Agricultural Sector ◽

Growth Dynamics ◽

And Gender ◽

Gender Wage Inequality

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Market and Institutional Determinants of Wage Differentiation in Russia

ILR Review ◽

10.1177/001979390205500404 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 55 (4) ◽

pp. 628-648 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Simon Clarke

Keyword(s):

Labor Market ◽

World Bank ◽

Wage Inequality ◽

Institutional Economics ◽

Industrial Relations ◽

Wage Determination ◽

Market Theory ◽

Institutional Determinants ◽

Competitive Labor Market

Using a range of official and survey data, the author evaluates the relative success of two approaches—competitive labor market theory and industrial relations theory/institutional economics—in explaining wage determination in Russia. Following a review of the analysis of wage determination by an influential team of World Bank economists, the author shows that increased wage inequality in Russia is dominated by inequality within occupational categories within local labor markets. Such inequality, he suggests, is primarily associated with inter-firm differences in wage levels, rather than barriers to labor mobility or differences in “human capital.” Such a pattern of differentiation entirely accords with the analyses of those institutional economists and industrial relations theorists who stress the role of the wage in regulating and motivating the labor force above its role in securing labor market equilibrium. The paper concludes by outlining the institutional framework of wage determination that underlies the observed results.

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