Wage Polarization in the Context of the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.2478/revecp-2022-0005" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.2478/revecp-2022-0005</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/revecp-2022-0005" target="_blank" >10.2478/revecp-2022-0005</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Wage Polarization in the Context of the Czech Republic

Original language description

Existing studies have provided evidence of job polarization in many developed countries. The issue of wage polarization is less obvious: Many articles do not address it at all, and some even confuse it with job polarization. At the same time, the significance of the phenomenon of polarization results precisely from the consequence of wage polarization: The increase in wage inequality. The aim of this article is to find out whether wage polarization occurred in the Czech Republic during the period 2004-2018. Wage development in the private sphere does not imply wage polarization, but in the public sphere, results imply a very slight wage polarization mainly due to the development between 2004 and 2010. This phenomenon has occurred in both male and female occupations. Panel regression analysis shows that globalization reduces upper-tail inequality (the ratio Q90/Q50) while increasing lower-tail inequality (the ratio Q50/Q10). At the level of the whole economy, technology seems to contribute to reducing both upper-tail and lower-tail inequality. These results probably correspond to the nature of the Czech economy, which is based on middle-skilled workers with a pro-export focus.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50201 - Economic Theory

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Národohospodářský obzor

ISSN

1213-2446

e-ISSN

1804-1663

Volume of the periodical

22

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

97-115

UT code for WoS article

000814797500002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85133950671