02002nam a2200289 a 4500 1/51318 051115s2005 be u pdd 0 a0gre d 92-894-8871-9 1016-8060 (print) 1725-3187 (online) ECFIN/REP/53376/05-EN 33199 GR-PeUP eng ΚΕΤ Αλφαβητική σειρά Mourre, Gilles. Wage compression and employment in Europe : first evidence from the structure of earnings survey 2002 / Mourre Gilles. Brussels- Belgium: European Comission: Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, 2005. 35 σ.: πιν. 30 εκ. European Economy. Economic papers ; This paper aims at examining wage compression in Europe using the publicly available data on wages drawn from the Structure of Earnings Survey 2002. By wage compression, it is meant here that the difference in productivity across workers or firms is only partly reflected by the difference in wages. The paper specifically considers the existence of wage compression both across occupations and levels of education by means of cross-sectional econometric analysis. • Looking at wage compression across occupations, robust evidence gives some support to the conventional view that there is a compressed wage distribution in Europe. • Wage compression mainly occurs in continental and southern countries, whilst no compression is detected in Anglo-Saxon countries and mixed evidence is found in Northern European countries. Economic Papers European Commission : Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs. Economic Papers September 2005, No 232. European Economy. Economic papers ; 232. INST UNIPILB KET 20090311 EEEP 232 EEEP 232 NOLOAN 23 1 http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/publications/publication_summary610_en.htm