Pay Inequalities in the European Community presents a comparative analysis of the distribution of earnings from employment in six countries of the European Economic Community: Britain, Belgium, France, the federal Republic of Germany, Italy and the Netherlands.
The text covers aspects of the inequality of pay among individual workers: inequality between sectors and industries in the economy; between occupations and between men and women; assessment of the relative importance of the elements in inequality; and factors which may underlie differences in the patterns of distribution between countries such as training and promotion systems, trade union bargaining policies and institutions, and income policies.
Economists, labor specialists, and researchers will find the book a good source of information.

• Front Cover 2
• Pay Inequalities in the European Community 5
• Copyright Page 6
• Dedication 7
• Preface 9
• Abbreviations and conventions 11
• Table of Contents 13
• CHAPTER ONE. Preliminaries 17
  • 1.1 What the book is about 17
  • 1.2 Basic concepts and data sources 19
  • 1.3 Pay and price trends in the 1970s 23
  • 1.4 Levels of pay and labour costs in money and purchasing power 25
  • Notes 29
• CHAPTER TWO. The comparative dispersions of individual earnings 31
  • 2.1 Introduction 31