Using the European Structure of Earnings Survey for Portugal for the years of 1995, 2002 and 2006, a matched employer-employee micro-dataset, this study presents for Portugal, first, the most common wage inequality measures and, second, explores the regression-based decomposition analysis of inequality introduced by Fields (2003). This approach allows an inequality accounting by the causal factors contributing to the differences in wage inequality in Portugal. Portuguese employees reveal during this period, by European standards, a very high wage inequality, which continues growing. The inequality of the higher-paid workers seems to drive the inequality in the Portuguese wage distribution. According to the Fields methodology, the occupation of the employee accounts for 23 percent of the level of wage inequality in Portugal in 2006, followed by the education and the industry sector, each of them contributing with 11 percent to the level of inequality.
Com base nas Estatísticas sobre ...
read more ...Using the European Structure of Earnings Survey for Portugal for the years of 1995, 2002 and 2006, a matched employer-employee micro-dataset, this study presents for Portugal, first, the most common wage inequality measures and, second, explores the regression-based decomposition analysis of inequality introduced by Fields (2003). This approach allows an inequality accounting by the causal factors contributing to the differences in wage inequality in Portugal. Portuguese employees reveal during this period, by European standards, a very high wage inequality, which continues growing. The inequality of the higher-paid workers seems to drive the inequality in the Portuguese wage distribution. According to the Fields methodology, the occupation of the employee accounts for 23 percent of the level of wage inequality in Portugal in 2006, followed by the education and the industry sector, each of them contributing with 11 percent to the level of inequality.
Com base nas Estatísticas sobre a Estrutura e Distribuição dos Ganhos nos anos de 1995, 2002 e 2006, apresenta-se, primeiro, os índices de desigualdade mais recentes referentes à distribuição salarial em Portugal e, em segundo, a metodologia de decomposição da desigualdade salarial nos seus factores explicativos, apresentada por Fields (2003). Os trabalhadores portugueses registam uma desigualdade salarial muito elevada, se comparada com a dos seus congéneres europeus. Esta desigualdade salarial deriva principalmente dos trabalhadores melhor remunerados, enquanto que os piores remunerados se revelam menos “desiguais”. De acordo com a metodologia de Fields (2003), a profissão contribui com 23 % para o nível da desigualdade salarial entre os trabalhadores portugueses. Seguem-se a educação e o sector de actividade do estabelecimento que contribuem, cada um com 11 %.
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