ETUI has published a new paper that provides insights into aspects of European labour institutions and labour market factors that affect inequality and shows that wages, particularly at the bottom of the wage distribution, are supported by institutional factors through the state or collective actors, as well as affected by the demand for labour. The paper on wage inequality considers in detail the role played by institutional as well as economic factors that shape wage floors and protect workers at the low end of the wage distribution. Using detailed data from EU-SILC from 2007 to 2021, enriched with contextual data, it shows that wage inequality has indeed on average declined across the EU .
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