ROZDELENIE A FAKTORY NAJVYŠŠÍCH MIEZD ZAMESTNANCOV V SLOVENSKEJ REPUBLIKE

• Authors: Pacáková Viera , Bohdan Linda , Ľubica Sipková

Title variants

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Distribution and factors of the highest wages in the Slovak Republic

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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This article contains the results of analysis of the highest wages of the employees in the Slovak Republic in 2010 using the methods of statistical inference. The information from the sample of the employees with wage higher than the 99th percentile of sampling data is generalized to the population using the Pareto distribution of wages. There are also identified the factors that have a significant impact on the frequency and on the level of extreme wages. These factors are gender, classification of occupations, industry, region of residence and age interval. The analysis has not confirmed a significant effect of the factor level of education on the amount of gross monthly salary of the employees in Slovakia with wage exceeds the upper percentile. According to these factors the paper identified groups of employees with the highest proportion or with the highest level of gross monthly salaries higher than 99th percentile in Slovakia in 2010.

Keywords

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WAGE; SALARY; SLOVAKIA; PARETO DISTRIBUTION

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak and World Economics and Institute for Forecasting, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Ekonomický časopis (Journal of Economics)
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 60
• Issue: 9
• Pages: 918 – 934

Contributors

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Pacáková Viera

• Univerzita Pardubice, Fakulta ekonomicko-správní, Ústav matematiky a kvantitativních metod, Studentská 84, 532 10 Pardubice, Czech Republic

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Bohdan Linda

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Ľubica Sipková