find evidence in favor of the Polish wage curve with an unemployment elasticity of -0.06. We also find that males in Poland … are significantly more responsive to local unemployment rates (-0.08) than their female counterparts (-0.04). Moreover, if … the lagged unemployment rate is used as an instrument for current unemployment rate, we find that the unemployment …

26 NUTS-2 regions over the period 2005-2008. When the local unemployment rate is treated as predetermined, there is … evidence in favor of the wage curve only for younger and female workers. However, if the lagged unemployment rate is used as an … instrument for current unemployment rate, we find an unemployment elasticity of -0.099. We also find a higher elasticity for …

26 NUTS-2 regions over the period 2005 - 2008. When the local unemployment rate is treated as predetermined, there is … evidence in favor of the wage curve only for younger and female workers. However, if the lagged unemployment rate is used as an … instrument for current unemployment rate, we find an unemployment elasticity of -0.099. We also find a higher elasticity for …

26 NUTS-2 regions over the period 2005-2008. When the local unemployment rate is treated as predetermined, there is … evidence in favor of the wage curve only for younger and female workers. However, if the lagged unemployment rate is used as an … instrument for current unemployment rate, we find an unemployment elasticity of -0.099. We also find a higher elasticity for …

A wage curve is a decreasing function of wages on the regional unemployment rate. Most empirical studies on the wage … taken into account. The paper tests whether the unemployment rate in the larger surrounding region also affects wages. In … heterogeneity and in the second step one allows for spatial effects of unemployment across regions on wages. We check the …