Abstract
The emerging notion that corporatism/centralisation reduces inter-industry wage dispersion is the main leading force behind this paper. We use data from a long series of comparable datasets to analyse the evolution of the size of inter-industry wage dispersion in Portugal. We compare the results with the ones obtained in other countries to find that the country has a high inter-industry wage inequality when compared with the European standard. Nevertheless, the dispersion decreased during the second half of the 1980s along with the establishment of a neo-corporatist setting, supporting the expected reduction.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 353-364 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Empirica |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2000 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Corporatism
- Cross-country comparison
- Inter-industry wage dispersion
- Portugal