Diferencias de coste laboral: razones y evidencia para la industria española

The systematic analysis on wages data for individuals and enterprises, more and more frequent in the studies of empirical labour economy, shows invariably this finding: there are important wage differences (and, in a more general sense, differences of labour cost) which may not be explained through the competitive model of labour market functioning. This article makes a brief review of the forecasts of the competitive modelo It al so examines the main non-competitive advanced reasons for the existence of cost differentials (wages negociation models and efficiency wages theory), describes the evidence obtained -in a recent research- on the presence and magnitude of these differentials in the Spanish manufacture to finally compare it with the evidence obtained in other researches.Publicad