Tuesday, September 08, 2009

[IWS] EIRO: PAY DEVELOPMENTS - 2008 [4 September 2009]

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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
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---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
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European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO)


Pay developments ­ 2008 [4 September 2009]
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/studies/tn0904029s/tn0904029s.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/docs/eiro/tn0904029s/tn0904029s.pdf
[full-text, 42 pages]

Abstract:
EIRO's annual analysis of pay trends finds that the average collectively agreed nominal wage increase across the EU fell from 7% in 2007 to 6.6% in 2008. Taking into account inflation, which rose strongly in 2008, the rate of real pay increase across the EU fell sharply, from 3.6% in 2007 to 1.3% in 2008. During the period under review, differences in terms of both pay trends and the level of pay increases persisted between the EU Member States that constituted the EU before the enlargement of 1 May 2004 and those that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007. The report also examines collectively agreed pay increases in three selected sectors (metalworking, banking and local government), current wage rates and minimum wage increases, increases in average earnings, as well as the extent of the gender pay gap across all countries.

CONTENTS
Average collectively agreed pay increases
- Nominal pay increases
  - Trends in nominal increases 2000­2008
  - Average nominal increases 2004­2008
- Real pay increases
Collectively agreed pay increases by sector
- Sectoral overview
  - EU15 and Norway
  - New Member States
- Metalworking
- Banking
- Local government
Minimum wages
- Minimum wage rates
- Youth wage rates
Gender pay differentials
Average earnings
Annexes


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