Changes in the Austrian structure of wages, 1996–2002: evidence from linked employer-employee data

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“…By contrast, wage dispersion falls in Hungary, Ireland and Spain. Finally, and as also pointed out by Pointner and Stiglbauer (), no change is observed in Austria. Specifically, the latter authors find that wage compression in Spain, Hungary and Ireland is driven by market factors (i.e.…”

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“…However, women still experience negative outcomes in the workplace due to their gender, such as significant wage disparity. Pointner and Stiglbauer (2010) implement the Machado and Mata (2005) counterfactual decomposition technique, finding that compositional effects due to gender, education level, age, and market‐driven effects (such as changes in the rate of return and changes in workplace characteristics) all lead to higher wage dispersion. Fersterer and Winter‐Ebmer (2003), Pointner and Stiglbauer (2010), and Akay and Oskonbaeva (2019) also document negative outcomes for women in the workplace despite moves towards gender diversity.…”