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Multilevel logistic random intercept regressions: Determinants of wage dissatisfaction; maximum likelihood estimates
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Although the determinants of wage militancy and moderation have been studied extensively by comparative political economists, so far the literature has focused on the macro level of analysis. As a result, there has been no attempt to analyze the determinants of individual-level attitudes towards wages. Based on two waves of the International Social...
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... is the volume of exports minus the volume of imports used in the production of exports. Data on exports comes from the AMECO database (AME-CO 2019); data on the import-content of exports comes from the OECD Input-Output Tables (OECD 2019). The import-adjusted contribution of exports to growth is then calculated as the annual change of import-adjusted exports weighted by the share of import-adjusted exports in GDP at t-1 (data on GDP from AMECO 2019). ...Context 2
... multilevel logistic regression results in Table 1 provide robust support for the hypothesis that working in an occupation exposed to international trade is associated with lower wage dissatisfaction (hypothesis 1). This finding applies to both the continuous and the categorical operationalizations of occupational trade exposure (see Models 1 and 2). ...Context 3
... of the individual-level control variables in Table 1 are also significantly related to wage preferences. Being a trade union member is associated with a higher likelihood of being dissatisfied with one's wage. ...Context 4
... is highest in Portugal, a country with below-average export-led growth with more than 70 percent of workers being dissatisfied with their wages, and is lowest in Switzerland, a country with a strong export contribution to growth and less than 40 percent of workers being dissatisfied. Table 1 add our macro-level measure of export-led growth to the logistic regression models. The core finding is that a higher reliance on export-led growth is associated with more moderate wage preferences (Model 3). ...Context 5
... other words, reliance on export-led growth and occupational exposure operate additively on wage attitudes. Figure 2 plots predicted probabilities of wage dissatisfaction by export orientation and occupational exposure (based on Model 4 in Table 1). It shows that our hypothesis 3 is corroborated: wage preferences are more moderate in countries that rely more extensively on export-led growth also for workers not exposed to international competition. ...Context 6
... shows that our hypothesis 3 is corroborated: wage preferences are more moderate in countries that rely more extensively on export-led growth also for workers not exposed to international competition. Models 1 to 9 in Table 2 test whether the negative effect of export-led growth holds when controlling for various macro variables: real average wage levels, changes in real average wages, GDP growth, (education-specific) unemployment, inflation, eurozone membership, and disposable and market income inequality (the full results are reported Table 1. Predicted probabilities are shown for export-led growth at the following levels: minimum value, 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, 90th percentile, and maximum value. in Table A.5 in the online appendix). ...Similar publications
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An extensive literature in comparative political economy has examined the determinants of wage militancy and moderation at the country level. So far, however, there has been no attempt to analyse the determinants of wage satisfaction and dissatisfaction at the individual level. Based on two waves of the International Social Survey Programme, this a...
