The issue of wages has attracted particular attention at European level since the onset of the economic crisis. Changes in economic governance, notably within the European Semester, have prompted discussions on wage-setting mechanisms.
The text covers aspects of the inequality of pay among individual workers: inequality between sectors and industries in the economy; between occupations and between men and women; assessment of the relative importance of the elements in ...
Wages directly affect the wellbeing and living conditions of the working population, household consumption and domestic demand, but also a country's competitiveness.
... Europe , but also within each country : the median annual salary gap between the dominant class and the middle class is € 15,000 in France and € 16,700 in Germany , against only € 7,500 in Sweden , the least unequal among the wealthy ...