Earnings Mobility in Europe: 1994-2001 - Do more flexible labour markets experience a higher earnings mobility?
Sologon, Denisa Maria and O'Donoghue, Cathal (2011). Earnings Mobility in Europe: 1994-2001 - Do more flexible labour markets experience a higher earnings mobility?. UNU-MERIT.
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O'Donoghue, CathalTitle Earnings Mobility in Europe: 1994-2001 - Do more flexible labour markets experience a higher earnings mobility? Publication Date 2011 Place of Publication Maastricht, NL Publisher UNU-MERIT Pages 38 Abstract The economic reality of the 1990s in Europe forced the labour markets to become more flexible. Using a consistent comparative dataset for 14 European countries, the European Community Household Panel (ECHP), we explore the evolution and the cross-national differences in earnings mobility across Europe between 1994 and 2001 from three angles: first, the evolution of short-term inequality and its link with cross-sectional inequality; second, the evolution of long-term mobility relative to short-term mobility and the implications for long-term inequality; third, we try to understand the cross-national differences in earnings mobility across Europe by exploring the cross-country heterogeneity in labour market policies/institutions. We explore the rank mobility and mobility as an equalizer of longer-term earnings. We find evidence supporting a negative association between the evolution of earnings inequality and earnings mobility. More flexible labour markets, with low levels of regulation and with a high labour market support are found to have higher earnings mobility. Similarly, unionization and corporatism are positively associated with earnings mobility. The "Flexicurity" countries (Denmark and Finland) have among the highest earnings mobility levels in Europe, close to the Anglo-Saxon countries (Ireland and the UK), whereas the Mediterranean countries with a strict regulation and a low labour market support have the lowest mobility. Portugal is the only country with disequalizing mobility in a long-term perspective Keyword Earnings mobility
Inequality
Distributional change
Labour market policies and institutionsJEL D31
D39
D63
J08
J31
J50
J60Copyright Holder UNU-MERIT Copyright Year 2011 Copyright type All rights reserved -
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