Prague Economic Papers 2001, 10(3) | DOI: 10.18267/j.pep.175

Earnings disparities in the czech republic: evidence of the past decade and cross-national comparison

Jiří Večerník

Wage and income surveys are used to display changes in inequality of earnings and main factors of disparities. In the first part, increasing disparities in the Czech Republic and the decreasing weight of demographic characteristics in wage determination are observed. In the second part, available evidence on cross-national comparison is gathered in order to demonstrate the increasing similarity of the Czech wage structure with Western countries. We document that the introduction of the market economy has led to a significant increase in earnings disparities; the

Keywords: earnings disparities, returns to education, gender gap, communist system of rewarding, transition in the Czech Republic

Published: January 1, 2001  Show citation

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Večerník, J. (2001). Earnings disparities in the czech republic: evidence of the past decade and cross-national comparison. Prague Economic Papers, 10(3), . doi: 10.18267/j.pep.175
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