AQR-Lab of UB advises the European Parliament on wage dispersion

AQR-Lab logo.
AQR-Lab logo.
(28/02/2014)

The European Parliament commissioned the Laboratory of Knowledge Transfer on Applied Economics (AQR-Lab) of the University of Barcelona (UB) to conduct the study Wage dispersion in the EU. A group of experts composed by Jordi Suriñach, Enrique López Bazo, Raúl Ramos and Vicente Royuela, members of AQR-Lab, together with researchers of the German Institute for Economics Research (DIW), was selected to carry out the study.

AQR-Lab logo.
AQR-Lab logo.
28/02/2014

The European Parliament commissioned the Laboratory of Knowledge Transfer on Applied Economics (AQR-Lab) of the University of Barcelona (UB) to conduct the study Wage dispersion in the EU. A group of experts composed by Jordi Suriñach, Enrique López Bazo, Raúl Ramos and Vicente Royuela, members of AQR-Lab, together with researchers of the German Institute for Economics Research (DIW), was selected to carry out the study.

The main objective of the study is to analyse the role that structural policies, particularly those that make reference to labour market regulation, play in recent changes in salary inequality among EU members. Moreover, the study will provide a detailed analysis of the effects that the bargaining system, the importance of a minimum wage and the coexistence of different quality job positions have on wage inequality.

 
This is the second project that the European Parliament has commissioned to AQR-Lab in the last two years. The first one, developed in 2013, is entitled The European Dimension in the National Reforms Programmes and the Stability or Convergence Programmes.