Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2016, 24(1):33-53 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aop.497

The Best and Worst-Paid Sectors in the Czech Republic

Diana Bílková
Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, Fakulta informatiky a statistiky (bilkova@vse.cz).

The present paper deals with the issue of different behaviour of wage distribution of two highest and two lowest-paid sectors of the Czech economy in the period since the beginning of the global economic crisis; the former ones are the sectors of "Financial and Insurance Activities" and "Information and Communication", the latter ones being those of "Accommodation and Food Service Activities" and "Administrative and Support Service Activities". The aim is to capture the differences between these two groups of sectors, not only in terms of wage levels, but also as far as the variability and concentration of wage distribution is concerned. The gross (nominal) monthly wage in CZK represents a research variable. The paper focuses on different developments of wage distribution of the above sector groups in time, wage level forecasts for 2015 and 2016 being included.

Keywords: best-paid sectors, worst-paid sectors, global economic crisis, wage distribution, gross monthly wage, wage level forecasts
JEL classification: D31, E24, H24, J31

Published: February 1, 2016  Show citation

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