@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp53, author={Hartog, Joop and Pereira, Pedro T. and Vieira, José António Cabral}, title={Inter-industry Wage Dispersion in Portugal: high but falling}, year={1999}, month={Aug}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={53}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp53}, abstract={This paper examines the size of inter-industry wage dispersion in Portugal and compares with other countries. We find that the country has a high inter-industry wage inequality compared with the European standard. Nevertheless, the dispersion reduced over the 1980s and the early 1990s along a process of centralisation of the wage setting. This finding may add to the emerging notion that centralisation reduces inter-industry wage dispersion.}, keywords={Inter-industry wage dispersion;centralisation;Portugal}, }