Browsing Economic and Social Review Archive: Complete Collection 1969- by Subject "Wage differentials"

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  • Inter-industry wage differentials and the gender wage gap: evidence from European countries 

    Gannon, Brenda; Plasman, Robert; Rycx, Francois; Tojerow, Ilan (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2007)
    This study analyses the interaction between inter-industry wage differentials and the gender wage gap in six European countries using a unique harmonised matched employer-employee data set, the 1995 European Structure of ...

  • Inter-industry wage differentials in Ireland 

    Gannon, Brenda; Nolan, Brian (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2004)
    This paper investigates inter-industry wage differentials in Ireland, taking advantage of access to a dataset that is uniquely suitable for this purpose, the 1996 Structure of Earnings Survey. This allows us to measure ...

  • Is there a wage premium for returning Irish migrants? 

    Barrett, Alan; O'Connell, Philip J. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2001)
    Higher rates of economic growth in recent years have led Ireland from being a country characterised by emigration to one where population inflows have become an important issue. This paper contains an analysis of one ...

  • Male-female wage differentials in Ireland 

    Callan, Tim (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1991)
    The persistence of sizeable male-female earnings differentials despite the introduction of a range of anti-discrimination measures has been a focus of concern in many countries. In Ireland the ratio of female to male wage ...

  • Segmented labour markets and earnings in Ireland 

    Hughes, Gerard; Nolan, Brian (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1997)
    Segmented labour market theory rests on two central tenets. The first is that it is meaningful to distinguish between primary labour markets providing "good" jobs with high wages and stable employment and secondary labour ...

  • The real wage gap and its development over time: the Irish experience 1960-1987 

    Walsh, Patrick Paul; Walsh, Frank A.; Woelger, Ernestine (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1989)
    The high inflation and high unemployment occurring throughout the OECD in recent years have resulted from a complex interaction of contractionary supply and demand factors as outlined by Bruno and Sachs (1985). Their ...

  • The real wage gap and its development over time: the Irish experience 1960-87: a comment 

    Lucey, Brian M. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1989)
    I wish to make a number of points regarding the content of the paper on the wage gap presented by Walsh, Walsh and Woelger. Let me first of all state that I found the explanation given in the paper to be a very simple and ...

  • Union and gender wage gap estimates for young workers in Ireland: a note 

    Reilly, Barry (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1995)
    This note exploits data from the YEA/ESRI Follow-Up Survey of School-Leavers from 1981 and 1982 to provide union wage gap estimates for young male and female workers. In contrast to the evidence available for the adult ...

  • Unions and the wage distribution in Ireland 

    Callan, Tim; Reilly, Barry (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1993)
    This paper examines the effects of trade unions in Ireland on the first two moments of the wage distribution. Using data from the ESRI's 1987 Survey of Income Distribution, Poverty and Usage of State Services, a union ...