| Abstract |
The Global Wage Indicator project aims to increase the transparency of the labour market in developing countries, and to give employees, trade unions, employers, and academics in these countries more insight into the way wages, terms of employment and working conditions are structured across occupations, companies, industries, regions, and countries. Empowerment of multiple stakeholders, including individuals and the trade union movement is achieved by introducing the wage indicator online questionnaire research system. The wage indicator consists of a dedicated website with labour market content, online salary check, and a questionnaire.
The project aims to solve the problem of lack of high quality, reliable data on wages by:
- increasing transparency of the labour market by providing individual employees with insight to wages paid in large numbers of occupations in their country or region
- gathering data by means of an online questionnaire with questions about wages, employment practices, and firm characteristics
- strengthening the position of trade unions by use of the Internet, so as to establish themselves as reliable authorities in the field of wage information
- improving comparisons of wages in multinational enterprises in various countries as a step towards enhancing effectiveness of the global trade union movement.
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