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Wage Equalization and Regional Misallocation : Evidence from Italian and German Provinces

Boeri, Tito - 2019

reduce inequality. We study the local and aggregate effects of collective bargaining in Italy and Germany. The two countries … West more productive than the East in Germany – but have adopted different models of wage bargaining. Italy sets wages … based on nationwide contracts that allow for limited local wage adjustments, while Germany has moved toward a more flexible …

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Local and Spatial Cointegration in the Wage Curve : A Spatial Panel Analysis for German Regions

Kosfeld, Reinhold - 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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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...

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Spatial Wage Curves for Formal and Informal Workers in Turkey

Baltagi, Badi H.; Soner Baskaya, Yusuf - 2022

This paper estimates spatial wage curves for formal and informal workers in Turkey using individual level data from the Turkish Household Labor Force Survey (THLFS) provided by TURKSTAT for the period 2008-2014. Unlike previous studies on wage curves for formal and informal workers, we extend...

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Centralized Wage Determination and Regional Unemployment Differences : The Case of Italy

Caponi, Vincenzo - 2021

This paper addresses the problem of the dualism of the Italian economy, particularly of its labor market. Although the Italian labor market is considered to be the most highly regulated among OECD countries, the unemployment rate in the North, which represents two thirds of the whole economy, is...

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Intra-Industry Adjustment to Import Competition : Theory and Application to the German Clothing Industry

Raff, Horst - 2009

This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the industry become inactive, surviving firms face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the...

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New Evidence on the Dynamic Wage Curve for Western Germany : 1980-2004

Baltagi, Badi H.; Blien, Uwe; Wolf, Katja - 2021

Services of Germany (Bundesagentur fur Arbeit) over the period 1980-2004. We find that the wage equation is highly …

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Locational Choice and Spatial Wage Inequality

Schran, Felix - 2019

During the last few decades, aggregate wage growth has been very unevenly distributed across space in Germany. While …

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Endogenous Job Destruction and Job Matching in Cities

Zenou, Yves - 2021

We propose a spatial search-matching model where both job creation and job destruction are endogenous. Workers are ex ante identical but not ex post since their job can be hit by a technological shock, which decreases their productivity. They reside in a city and commuting to the job center...

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Labor Market Effects of Immigration : Evidence from Neighborhood Data

Bauer, Thomas K. - 2011

This paper combines individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with economic and demographic postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities of high- and low-skilled natives. Employing an...

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