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Why do people still live in East Germany?
Hunt, Jennifer - 2000
In 1997 GDP per capita in East Germany was 57% of that of West Germany, wage rates were 75% of western levels, and the … bring convergence, labor flows would respond, enhancing overall efficiency. Yet net emigration from East Germany has fallen … from high levels in 1989-1990 to close to zero. Using statelevel data for all of Germany, available from 1991-1996, I am …
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High-impact minimum wages and heterogeneous regions
Vom Berge, Philipp; Frings, Hanna - 2017
We estimate the effects of the introduction and subsequent increases of a substantial minimum wage in Germany's main … rate for East Germany but did not have a significant impact on the West German equivalent. The estimated effect on the …
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New evidence on the dynamic wage curve for Western Germany : 1980 - 2004
Baltagi, Badi H. (contributor); Blien, Uwe (contributor);  … - 2008
Services of Germany (Bundesagentur für Arbeit) over the period 1980-2004. We find that the wage equation is highly …
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Local and spatial cointegration in the wage curve : a spatial panel analysis for German regions
Kosfeld, Reinhold; Dreger, Christian - 2015
The wage curve introduced by Blanchflower and Oswald (1990, 1994) postulates a negative correlation between wages and unemployment. Empirical results focus on particular theoretical channels establishing the relationship. Panel models mostly draw on unionized bargaining or the efficiency wage...
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Individual pay and outside options : evidence from the Polish labour force survey
Duffy, Fiona; Walsh, Patrick Paul - 2001
Using Polish Labour Force Survey data, we examine whether competition for labour has induced individual pay to depend on outside options, availability and quality of jobs. Exploiting the lack of inter-regional job and worker flows we estimate the elasticity of individual pay, amongst a rich set...
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Towards an East German wage curve : NUTS boundaries, labour market regions and unemployment spillovers
Kosfeld, Reinhold; Dreger, Christian - 2017
unemployment is often ignored. Both issues are particularly important in high unemployment regimes like East Germany where a wage …. The analysis gives evidence on a locally but not a spatially cointegrated wage curve for East Germany. …
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The heterogenous regional effects of minimum wages in Poland
Albinowski, Maciej; Lewandowski, Piotr - 2020
Since 2008, Poland has been among the EU countries that have increased their minimum wage levels the most, following period in the mid-2000s during which the country's minimum wage was barely raised. We evaluate the impact of these minimum wage hikes on employment and wage growth in Poland...
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The distribution of wages in Belarus
Pastore, Francesco (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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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
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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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