Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Part A: Gender Wage Gap
Chapter 1. The Semiparametric Juhn-Murphy-Pierce Decomposition of the Gender Pay Gap with an Application to Spain
(Ignacio Moral-Arce, Stefan Sperlich and Ana Fernández-Sainz, Institute for Fiscal Studies, Ministry of Finance, Spain and others)
Chapter 2. Low-wage Employment and Gender Pay Gap in OECD Countries
(Manuel Salas Velasco, University of Granada, Spain)
Chapter 3. Effects of Job Satisfaction on Wages and Gender Wage Differentials: A Simultaneous Equations Approach
(Madhu S. Mohanty, California State University, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Chapter 4. The Commute to Work and the Gender Wage Differential: International Analyses
(Paul W. Miller, School of Economics and Finance, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia)
Chapter 5. Inter- and Intra-industry Wage Inequality and Potential Impact of Automation in the Economy
(Qing-Ping Ma, Nottingham University Business School, China and others)
Part B: Regional Study
Chapter 6. Geographical Economics and Income Disparities: Evidence from Europe, Spain and Romania
(Jesús López-Rodríguez and Andrés Faíña, Universidad de A Coruña, Spain and ot)
Chapter 7. The Impact of Immigration on Wages in Amsterdam and Rotterdam
(Jeroen van der Waal, Department of Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Chapter 8. Crowding-in or Crowding-out? Employment in the Public and the Private Sector in the OECD
(Ana Lamo, Javier J. Pérez and A. Jesús Sánchez-Fuentes, European Central Bank, Germany and others)
Chapter 9. Reinventing the Skilled Region: Human Capital Externalities and Industrial Change
(Daniel F. Heuermann, Faculty of Economics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany)
Chapter 10. How Significant are Service Sector Wages in Attracting and Retaining Recent Graduates? A Comparison between Singapore and Hong Kong
(Faizal bin Yahya and Sarjune Ibrahim S/O Sitheek, Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Part C: Wage Negotiation
Chapter 11. Uncertainty in Wage Increase Negotiation and Decisions; An Approach from Flexible Fuzzy Inference System (FIS)
(Festus Oluseyi Oderanti, Newcastle University Business School, Newcastle, UK)
Chapter 12. Government’s Tax Preference, Unionization Structure, and Privatization
(Leonard F.S. Wang and Jen-Yao Lee, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan and others)
Chapter 13. Is Unemployment Attributable to Globalization? The Role of Labour Unions and its Policy Implications
(Yingyi Tsai and Ching-lin Wei, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
Index