A Note on How to Realize the Full Potential of the EU-SILC Data

Berger, Melissa; Schaffner, Sandra

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2567255

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“…7 We follow the EU-SILC methodological literature (eg. Eurofound 2014, Berger and Schaffner 2015, Fernández-Macías and Vacas-Soriano 2016, Salverda and Rook 2023 in identifying a comparable sub-sample of full-time equivalent wage-earners as the basis of our indicative distribution of gross wages. From this distribution, we use the tenth and fifth percentiles as proxies for effective and absolute wage floors (see Haapanala et al 2023).…”

Section: Have Wage Floors Lagged Behind Rising Living Standards?mentioning

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Is Poverty Reduction in Europe Doomed? Conjectures, Facts and a Cautiously Optimistic Conclusion

Marx,

Haapanala,

Marchal

2024

SSRN Journal

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Section: Have Wage Floors Lagged Behind Rising Living Standards?mentioning

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Is Poverty Reduction in Europe Doomed? Conjectures, Facts and a Cautiously Optimistic Conclusion

Marx,

Haapanala,

Marchal

2024

SSRN Journal

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“…We follow established procedures in the literature (for example, Berger and Schaffner, 2015; Eurofound, 2014; Fernández-Macías and Vacas-Soriano, 2016; Salverda and Rook, 2023) in deriving our approximations of the hourly wage distribution as our primary level of analysis. Our sample consists of individuals aged 18–65 in full-time dependent employment, with information on annual gross incomes from employment (PY010 G), employment status (PL031), number of months worked full-time (PL073) and hours usually worked per week (PL060).…”

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Decent wage floors in Europe: Does the minimum wage directive get it right?

Haapanala

Marx

Parolin

2023

Journal of European Social Policy

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The Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages represents a watershed initiative adding substance to the EU’s social dimension. It contains two ambitious objectives: establishing the minimum level of statutory minimum wages at 60% of the gross median wage, and increasing collective bargaining coverage (CBC) to at least 80% of workers. In this article, we assess how statutory minimum wages and collective bargaining coverage are associated with the likelihood of low pay. Using a time series cross-section of EU-SILC for income years 2004–2019, we identify and assess the absolute and relative size of ‘effective wage floors’ for full-time employees in 30 countries. We specify multilevel, random effects within-between regression models to assess the individual and joint associations of SMW and collective bargaining coverage with wage floors. Our results indicate that SMWs and CBC both have distinct roles in establishing the effective wage floor. First, higher collective bargaining coverage is on average associated with a lower share of workers earning below 60% gross median wages. Second, higher SMWs are strongly associated with higher effective wage floors. Third, both collective bargaining coverage and union density are strongly associated with higher wage floors.

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“…Truncation results in shifting the sample average away from the population average, which should be taken into account to provide unbiased β estimates if this is the case (see Cameron and Trivedi 2005). comparability across countries (see, among others, Berger and Schaffner 2015;Krell et al 2017), EU-SILC remains the main dataset for monitoring poverty and well-being in the EU.…”

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How Poor Are the Poor? Looking beyond the Binary Measure of Income Poverty

Kyzyma

2020

J Econ Inequal

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This paper contributes to the literature by analysing how poor the income poor are in European countries. Using data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions, I go beyond average estimates of the intensity of poverty and analyse the distribution of individual-level poverty gaps in each country of interest. As a next step, I identify which personal and household characteristics predict how far away incomes of the poor fall from the poverty line. The results indicate that, in most European countries, half of the poor have income shortfalls not exceeding 30% of the poverty line whereas only a few percent of the poor have income deficits of 80% and more. The results also suggest that traditional poverty correlates (e.g. age, gender, educational background) are not always significantly associated with the size of normalised poverty gaps at the individual level, or the nature of these associations differs as compared to when the same characteristics are linked to the probability of being poor.

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A Note on How to Realize the Full Potential of the EU-SILC Data

Cited by 7 publications

References 9 publications

Is Poverty Reduction in Europe Doomed? Conjectures, Facts and a Cautiously Optimistic Conclusion

Is Poverty Reduction in Europe Doomed? Conjectures, Facts and a Cautiously Optimistic Conclusion

Decent wage floors in Europe: Does the minimum wage directive get it right?

How Poor Are the Poor? Looking beyond the Binary Measure of Income Poverty

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