The Role of Firms in Wage Inequality

Acknowledgements

This volume is the outcome of a collaboration between the Economics Department (ECO), the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (ELS) and the Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI). It was led, coordinated and edited by Chiara Criscuolo (STI), Alexander Hijzen (ELS) and Cyrille Schwellnus (ECO), and produced with the great help and hard work of a dedicated team of OECD economists including Antton Haramboure, Michael Koelle, Nathalie Scholl and Wouter Zwysen. Giuseppe Berlingieri, Timo Leidecker and Capucine Riom participated in the initial stages of the project. The volume could not have been produced without the invaluable inputs of country experts with access to the administrative data, including Wen-Hao Chen (Canada), Valerie Lankester, Catalina Sandoval, Jonathan Garita (Costa Rica), Antoine Bertheau (Denmark), Satu Nurmi (Finland), Duncan Roth, Alfred Garloff (Germany), Balazs Murakozy (Hungary), Ryo Kambayashi (Japan), Katarzyna Grabska (Netherlands), Richard Fabling (New Zealand), Erling Barth (Norway), Priscilla Fialho (Portugal), Vladimir Peciar (Slovak Republic), Andrei Gorshkov, Oskar Nordstrom Skans (Sweden), Richard Upward (United Kingdom), and Kevin Rinz (United States). Matej Bajgar, Orsetta Causa, Gabriele Ciminelli, Jonathan Timmis and Rudy Verlhac (all OECD) provided generous help with accessing and analysing invaluable external data used in the analysis. The manuscript was formatted for publication by Márcio Carvalho, Lucy Hulett and Sarah Michelson. Steve Whitehouse contributed to the editing of the Executive Summary and Chapter 1, while Andrew Esson prepared the charts for Chapter 1. The senior management, including Laurence Boone (Chief Economist), Luiz De Mello (Director of ECO), Stefano Scarpetta (Director of ELS), Andrew Wyckoff (Director of STI), Dirk Pilat (Deputy Director of STI), Mark Pearson (Deputy Director of ELS), Alain de Serres (Deputy Director of ECO), Stéphane Carcillo, Mark Keese, Giuseppe Nicoletti and Dan Andrews, provided guidance and extensive comments. The report has benefited from comments by delegates of Working Party No. 1 of the Economic Policy Committee, the Working Party on Employment, the Employment Labour and Social Affairs Committee, and the Committee on Industry, Innovation and Entrepreneurship of the OECD, as well as representatives of the Trade Union Advisory Committee and the Business and Industry Advisory Committee throughout the process.