%0 Report
        %A Saint-Paul, Gilles
        %T Did European Labor Markets Become More Competitive in the 1990s? Evidence from Estimated Worker Rents
        %D 2004
        %8 2004 Mar
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 1067
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1067
        %X This paper analyses the evolution of quantitative measures of employee rents in Europe
during the nineties, using the European Household Panel Survey. One looks at two class of
measures: wage differentials between workers along industry and firm size dimensions, and
estimated welfare differences between employed and unemployed using a model of labor
market transitions. The results are largely negative; there is robust evidence of falling rents
during that period only in Ireland.
        %K rents
%K insiders
%K unemployment
%K labour market flexibility