TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Myck, Michal
AU  - Morawski, Leszek
AU  - Mycielski, Jerzy
        TI  - Employment Fluctuations and Dynamics of the Aggregate Average Wage in Poland 1996-2003
        PY  - 2006/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 2456
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp2456
        AB  - The aggregate average wage is often used as an indicator of economic performance and welfare, and as such often serves as a benchmark for changes in the generosity of public transfers and for wage negotiations. Yet if economies experience a high degree of (nonrandom) fluctuation in employment the composition of the employed population will have a considerable effect on the computed average. In this paper we demonstrate the extent of this problem using data for Poland for the period 1996-2003. During these years employment in Poland fell from 51.2% to 44.2% and most of it occurred between the end of 1998 and the end of 2002. We show that about a quarter of the growth in the average wage during this period could be attributed purely to changes in employment.
        KW  - transition economies
KW  - wage distribution
KW  - aggregation
KW  - employment dynamics
        ER  -