Wage Structures, Employment Adjustments and Globalization

DAVID MARSDEN is Professor of Industrial Relations at the London School of Economics, UK, and a Research Associate of the Centre for Economic Performance. He did his doctoral work at the Laboratoire d'Économie et de Sociologie du Travail (CNRS), Aix-en-Provence, where he developed his interest in the comparative study of labour markets and labour institutions, and how these affect the internal workings of organisationsFRANÇOIS RYCX is Associate Professor of Economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium. He is affiliated to the Centre Emile Bernheim (CEB) and the Department of Applied Economics of ULB (DULBEA), Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, and a national correspondent of the Applied Econometrics Association. His research is concerned with labour, personnel and international economics

• Foreword; D.Marsden & F.Rycx Introduction and Overview; D.Marsden & F.Rycx PART I: LABOUR TURNOVER FLOWS AND MOBILITY Labour Turnover and Wage Mobility: The Impact of the Legal Setting and Institutions; L.Cappellari Job and Worker Flows at the Firm Level; H.Dale-Olsen Summary of the Literature on Job Displacements in the US and EU: What We Know and What We Would Like to Know; T.Wachter Skill Mismatch in Europe; R.Böhem , I.Magda & M.Zweimüller PART II: WAGES, HUMAN RESOURCE STRATEGIES AND INSTITUTIONS Variability of Wages Across Sectors: How Much, Why and With What Consequences?; F.Rycx Rent Sharing: A Survey of Methodologies and Results; P.S.Martins Union effects on wages; A.Bryson Low-wage Employment and the Role of the Firm: An Agenda for Data and Research; W.Salverda Do Firms Compress the Wage Distribution?; A.R.Cardoso PART III: CONSEQUENCES OF GLOBALIZATION AND DATA CHALLENGES Labour Market Outcomes of Internationalization What Have we Learnt from Analyses of Microdata on Firms and their Employees?; T.Eriksson Development of Linked Employer-employee Data for EU Labour Market and Social Policy Analysis; T.Desai