WAGEINDICATOR WISUTIL conference, Vienna, Austria September2011 Paulien Osse director Wage Indicator Foundation

How it started: How it started: What is my wage? – Good question, nobody knows! Let's find out for myself, my cleaning lady, the nanny. Let's find out for everybody on the labor market. Not only the white male top end. 10 years ago: Dutch initiative - Non Profit – Board: University of Amsterdam + Dutch Confederation of Trade Unions + Monster.com Today: Worldwide platform covering 60 countries. Formal and informal economies, small and large. Now websites with Wages and Benefits by Occupation – International Comparison – Minimum Wages – VIP Wages - Labor Law – Special attention for Women, Youth, Elderly on the Labor market – Career Advice Contribution to: Awareness  Compliance  Social Peace What is WageIndicator 26 September 20112

–2001 Netherlands – EU-countries –2005 Brasil, South- Africa, India –2006 USA, Mexico, Argentina –2007 Russia, post- soviet countries –2008 more EU, Colombia, Guatemala, Paraguay –2009 Indonesia, Southern Africa –2010 China, Pakistan –2011 Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Australia –2011 – Q 4 - Egypt, Tanzania, Kenya, Ghana Websites in 60 countries 26 September 20113

3-4 clicks 1)Choose an occupation: choice of many occupations 2)Tick personal characteristics: age, gender, education, region, etc 3) Output screen: average monthly/weekly wage in an occupation, taken into account the characteristics Extra info: – Output screen: other characteristics of the occupation A Salary Check – is free of charge – attracts huge numbers of visitors – is based on data collected in a web-survey What is a Salary Check? 26 September 20114

Organisation: NL team for overall management, web-management, hosting & technical support web-marketing, data- and survey management Organisation: Regional Offices for international and sub regional and national web and research activities: Buenos Aires, Cape Town/Maputo, Minsk, Ahmedabad Funding: projects from EU, development aid, ministries Funding: licenses, advertisements, sales of data and survey questions (omnibus survey) WageIndicator organisation 26 September 20115

Trade unions – National confederations – all countries apart from China – International confederations: ITUC, UNI Online newspapers, radio – Sueddeutsche (DE) – La Nacion (AR ); KP.Ru (RU) Portals – UOL (BR), MSN (NL, UK), Career sites – Career site Monster (BE, KR, NL, SE) WageIndicator Partners 26 September 20116

Worldwide > 16 million web-visitors per year –worldwide, the public shows a great desire for information about wages, minimum wages, labour law, VIP wages Web-marketing efforts –web-marketing and search engine optimization –cooperation with major Internet players: MSN, portals, trade unions, newspapers, career sites –example: in Brazil with UOL, in China with largest jobsite EFFECT on Web-survey –all websites invite visitors to complete a web-survey on work and wages (continuous survey in national language) –-> generates a large database with wage information Web traffic and web survey 26 September

On wages and working hours – wages of nurses in three countries (Finnish & English) – wages of engineers, bookkeepers, shop assistants, etc in Germany (German) – effects of MNE’s on wages in 7 EU countries (English) On workplace relations – attitudes towards collective bargaining coverage (Eng.) – effect of dismissals on self-perceived job insecurity (Eng.) On labor markets – working conditions in 7 EU countries (English, German, Hungarian, Spanish) Research publications 26 September

Yes: 1.The combination between wages and occupations 2.Insight throughout the whole labour market 3.International comparable 4.To use online and offline (survey, minimum wage info, labour law info) 5.Lighthouse in countries where Trade Union is weak 6.Lighthouse in countries with no insight at all in what happens in the labour market (Egypt, Zambia, Pakistan, f.e.) Is this new? 26 September

Want to Join? The end 26 September