Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/55057 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6010
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper examines the relationship between institutions and the remuneration of different jobs by comparing the German and Belgian labour markets with respect to a typology of institutions (social representations, norms, conventions, legislation, and organisations). The observed institutional differences between the two countries lead to the hypotheses of (I) higher overall pay inequality in Germany; (II) higher pay inequalities between employees and workers in Belgium; and (III) higher (lower) impact of educational credentials (work-post tenure) on earnings in Germany. We provide survey-based empirical evidence supporting hypotheses I and III, but find no evidence for hypothesis II. These results underline the importance of institutional details: although Germany and Belgium belong to the same variety of capitalism, we provide evidence that small institutional disparities within Continental-European capitalism account for distinct structures of pay.
Subjects: 
labour market institutions
wage inequality
rules
collective bargaining
JEL: 
J31
J51
J52
J53
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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