Distribution and Factors of the Highest Wages in the Slovak Republic Cover Image

Rozdelenie a faktory najvyšších miezd zamestnancov v Slovenskej republike
Distribution and Factors of the Highest Wages in the Slovak Republic

Author(s): Viera Pacáková
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Ekonomický ústav SAV a Prognostický ústav SAV
Keywords: gross wage; Pareto distribution; goodness-of-fit tests; quantiles; analysis of variance; histogram; box-plot

Summary/Abstract: This article contains the results of analysis of the highest wages of the em-ployees in the Slovak Republic in 2010 using the methods of statistical inference. The information from the sample of the employees with wage higher than the 99th percentile of sampling data is generalized to the population using the Pareto distribution of wages. There are also identified the factors that have a significant impact on the frequency and on the level of extreme wages. These factors are gender, classification of occupations, industry, region of residence and age interval. The analysis has not confirmed a significant effect of the factor level of education on the amount of gross monthly salary of the employees in Slovakia with wage exceeds the upper percentile. According to these factors the paper identified groups of employees with the highest proportion or with the highest level of gross monthly salaries higher than 99th percentile in Slovakia in 2010.

  • Issue Year: 60/2012
  • Issue No: 09
  • Page Range: 918-934
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Slovak