LOW-WAGE EMPLOYMENT IN CZECHIA: A PERSISTENT BURDEN

• Authors: Fialová Kamila
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Working for low pay may have substantial negative consequences at both the individual and societal level. This article adds to scarce research on low pay in Czechia, employing pooled longitudinal EU-SILC data for 2004 – 2017. It analyses patterns of low-wage employment and estimates the degree of low-pay persistence in terms of genuine state dependence in low-wage employment, accounting for both observed and unobserved heterogeneity among workers and endogeneity in the initial conditions. The results indicate that low pay exhibits a significant degree of state dependence in Czechia: having a low-paid job on average increases the likelihood of staying low paid in the future by 14 percentage points. The most important individual factors predisposing workers to earn low wages and get stuck in a low-paid job are low education and the female gender.

Keywords

EN

LOW-WAGE; EMPLOYMENT; LOW PAY PERSISTENCE; EU-SILC DATA; CZECHIA

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak and World Economics and Institute for Forecasting, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Ekonomický časopis (Journal of Economics)
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 70
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 475 – 498

Contributors

author

Fialová Kamila

• Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9623-4474

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/ekoncas.2022.06.01