Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20144 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 907
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In this paper, we develop an allocation model of workers differentiated by their field of study to test whether international differences in the wage structure can be explained by differences in labor demand and supply in each country. The model explicitly takes into account the effects of supply and demand shifts on the allocation structure to disentangle country specific differences in the recruitment for one occupation from real supply-demand effects. Empirical results based on data for nine countries show that cross-country differences in wage inequality explain at least 2/3 of the differences in labor demand and supply.
Subjects: 
allocation
wage inequality
JEL: 
J23
J21
J31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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