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Still searching for the wage curve : evidence from Germany and Italy
Ammermüller, Andreas; Lucifora, Claudio; Origo, Federica; … - 2007
This paper investigates the functioning of regional labour markets in Italy and Germany for different employee groups …. In the light of high and persistent differences in unemployment and wage rates between the North and South of Italy and … Italy. In the case of Germany, results are quite sensitive to the model specification and the employee group considered. In …
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The Polish wage curve : micro panel data analysis based on the Polish labor force survey
Baltagi, Badi H.; Rokicki, Bartłomiej - 2013
This paper analyzes the Polish wage curve using individual data from the Polish Labor Force Survey (LFS) at the 16 NUTS2 regions over the period 1999 - 2010. This survey does not gather information on wages of self-employed or paid family workers. After excluding the unemployed, inactive and...
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The Brazilian wage curve : new evidence from the national household survey
Baltagi, Badi H.; Rokicki, Bartłomiej; Souza, Kênia … - 2014
This paper reconsiders the Brazilian wage curve using individual data from the National Household Survey at 27 Federative Units over the period 2002 - 2009. We find evidence in favor of the Brazilian wage curve with an unemployment elasticity of -0.08 when the lagged unemployment rate is used as...
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The reservation wage curve : evidence from the UK
Brown, Sarah; Taylor, Karl - 2014
We investigate the relationship between an individuals' reservation wage, i.e. the lowest wage acceptable in order to enter into employment, and unemployment in the local area district. Largely unexplored in the literature this adds to the work which has examined the association between employee...
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Dynamic wage bargaining if benefits are tied to individual wages
Beissinger, Thomas; Egger, Hartmut - 2001
In dynamic wage bargaining models it is usually assumed that individual unemployment benefits are a fraction of the average wage level. In most countries, however, unemployment benefits are instead tied to the previous level of individually earned wages. We show how the analysis has to be...
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Is the wage curve formal or informal? : evidence for Colombia
Ramos, Raúl; Duque, Juan C.; Suriñach Caralt, Jordi - 2009
The objective of this paper is to analyse the existence or not of a wage curve in Colombia, paying special attention to the differences between formal and informal workers, an issue that has been systematically ignored in the wage curve literature. The obtained results using microdata from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003901811
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The institutional context of an "empirical law" : the wage curve under different regimes of collective bargaining
Blien, Uwe; Dauth, Wolfgang; Schank, Thorsten; … - 2009
The wage curve identified by Blanchflower and Oswald (1994) postulates that the wage level is a decreasing function of the regional unemployment rate. In testing this hypothesis, most empirical studies have not taken into account that differences in the institutional framework may have an impact...
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Migration and the wage curve : a structural approach to measure the wage and employment effects of migration
Brücker, Herbert (contributor); Jahn, Elke J. (contributor) - 2008
Based on a wage curve approach we examine the labor market effects of migration in Germany. The wage curve relies on the assumption that wages respond to a change in the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. This allows one to derive the wage and employment effects of migration simultaneously...
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New evidence on the dynamic wage curve for Western Germany : 1980 - 2004
Baltagi, Badi H. (contributor); Blien, Uwe (contributor);  … - 2008
In 1994, Blanchflower and Oswald reported that they have found an 'empirical law of economics' -the Wage Curve. According to their empirical results, the elasticity of wages with respect to regional unemployment is -0.1. This holds especially for the Anglo-Saxon countries. Our paper reconsiders...
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Job competition and the wage curve
Longhi, Simonetta - 2010
The wage curve literature consistently finds a negative relationship between regional unemployment rates and regional wages; the most widely accepted theoretical explanations interpret the unemployment rate as a measure of job competition. This paper proposes new ways of measuring job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941443