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• Position in global value chains and wages in Central and Eastern European countries

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  • S. Szymczak
  • A. Parteka
  • J. Wolszczak-Derlacz

  - EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS - Year 2022

  This paper examines the relationship between the relative position of industries in Global Value Chains (GVC) and wages in 10 Central and Eastern European countries. We combine GVC measures of global import intensity of production, upstreamness and the length of the value chain with micro-data on workers. We find that the wages of Central and Eastern European countries workers are higher when their industry is at the beginning...

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• Within- and between-firm wage inequalities and trade integration in GVC

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  • J. Wolszczak-Derlacz
  • D. Nikulin

  - Journal of International Trade & Economic Development - Year 2022

  This paper examines between- (inter) and within- (intra) firm wage inequality using rich employer-employee data for 12 European countries. We confirm that much overall wage inequality is observed within sectors and within occupations. The share of the within- and between-firm components in overall wage inequality varies across countries. We estimate the link between involvement in global value chains (GVCs) and wages differentiating...

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