Selective bibliography
5. Wage dispersion and inequalities
7. Minimum wages and low wages
8. Wage strategies of companies
General evolution of wages - Statistical reports
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5. Wage dispersion and inequalities
. Atkinson, A.B (2007), “The distribution of earnings in OECD countries”, in International Labour Review, Vol. 146, No. 1–2, pp. 41–60.
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. Francese, M, Mulas-Granados, C (2015), Functional income distribution and its role in explaining inequality, Working Paper WP/15/244, Washington, DC, IMF.
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. OECD (2008), Growing unequal? Income distribution and poverty in OECD countries, Paris
. Ostry, J. D, Berg, A, Tsangarides, C. G (2014), “Redistribution, inequality, and growth”, IMF Discussion Note SDN/14/02, Feb. Washington, DC, International Monetary Fund
. Sabadish, N, Mishel, L (2012), CEO pay and the top 1%: How executive compensation and financial-sector pay have fuelled income inequality, Issue Brief No. 331, 2 May, Washington, DC, Economic Policy Institute
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. Blau, F.D, Kahn, L.M (2003), “Understanding international differences in the gender pay gap”, Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 106–144.
. Card, D, Cardoso, A. R, Kline, P (2015), “Bargaining, sorting, and the gender wage gap: Quantifying the impact of firms on the relative pay of women”, NBER Working Paper 21403, July, Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research
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. Grimshaw, D, Rubery, J (2015), The motherhood pay gap: A review of the issues, theory and international evidence, Geneva, ILO
. Heinze, A, Wolf, E (2010), “The intra-firm gender wage gap: a new view on wage differentials based on linked employer-employee data”, in Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 23, pp. 851–879.
. Maître, N, Sobeck, K, (Forthcoming 2017-18), Gender wage gaps among youth in developing countries, Geneva, ILO
. Nopo, H, Daza, N, Ramos, J (2011), Gender earnings gaps in the world, IZA Discussion Paper No. 5736, Bonn, IZA
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. Peetz, D (2015), “Regulation distance, labour segmentation and gender gaps”, in Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 345–343
. Rubery, J, Grimshaw, D (2011), Gender and the minimum wage, Basingstoke and Geneva, Palgrave Macmillan and ILO
. Schäfer, A, Gottschall, K (2015), “From wage regulation to wage gap: How wage-setting institutions and structures shape the gender wage gap across three industries in 24 European countries and Germany”, in Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 467–496.
7. Minimum wages and low wages
. Belman, D, Wolfson, P (2014), What does the minimum wage do? Kalamazoo, MI, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
. Belman, D, Wolfson, P (2016), What does the minimum wage do in developing countries? A review of studies and methodologies, Geneva, ILO
. Doucouliagos, H, Stanley, T.D (2009), “Publication selection bias in minimum wage research? A meta-regression analysis”, in British Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 406–426.
. Gindling, T. H, Terrell, Katherine (2004), “Minimum Wages, Inequality and Globalization”, Bonn, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit/Institute for the Study of Labor, IZA, Discussion Paper n°1160, mai, 24 p, en ligne
. Grimshaw, D (2011), What do we know about low-wage work and low-wage workers? Analysing the definitions, patterns, causes and consequences in international perspective, Conditions of Work and Employment Series 28, Geneva, ILO
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8. Wage strategies of companies
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. Andrews, M. J, Gill, L, Schank, T, Upward, R (2008), “High wage workers and low wage firms: Negative assortative matching or limited mobility bias?”, in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), Vol. 171, No. 3, pp. 673–697.
. Autor, David, Dorn, D. Katz, Lawrence F, Patterson, C, Van Reenen J (2017), The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms, IZA, DP Nr. 10756, May, 76 p
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. Song, J, Price, D.J, Guvenen, F, Bloom, N, von Wachter, T (2015), Firming up inequality, NBER Working Paper 21199, May, Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research
. Weil, D (2014), The fissured workplace: Why work became bad for so many and what can be done to improve it, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press
