Employment, productivity and wages: a sectoral perspective
The new study, part of CoLABOR's editorial line "Numbers in analysis", entitled "Employment, productivity and wages: a sectoral perspective", analyzes the evolution of employment, productivity and wages in Portugal from a sectoral and comparative perspective. The author shows that the growing outsourcing of employment has been driven by certain sectors which are characterized by low levels of productivity and wages below the national average and that, while for the period 2004-2022 real productivity growth is almost marginal (3.6%), between 2013-2022 there was an increase of almost 19%, occurring in sectors with different wage and productivity profiles. Over the same period, real average productivity almost always rose above real average wages, with this gap being particularly evident in certain sectors, namely Accommodation, food services and similar (I), Real estate (L), Agriculture, hunting, forestry and fishing (A) and Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles (G).
