urban areas may generate productivity advantages that result in higher wages. City size has an important impact on the … relative bargaining power of workers and firms in the labour market. When analysing the relationship of local wages and the … business cycle, wage flexibility, measured by the wage curve, is higher in informal sectors in less dense areas in Brazil …

stabilised since then. The first part of the paper aims to describe the regional differentiation in wages and unemployment on the … coefficient of the unemployment elasticity of wages equals 0.08, which can be considered as evidence of the existence of the wage … descriptive method basis. The other part of the study attempts to explain the differences in wages by an econometric model. We …

wages; the most widely accepted theoretical explanations interpret the unemployment rate as a measure of job competition …The wage curve literature consistently finds a negative relationship between regional unemployment rates and regional …. This paper proposes new ways of measuring job competition, alternative to the unemployment rate, and finds that the …

estimated in many empirical studies. Up to now, the connection of regional unemployment with reservation wages has not been … between unemployment and reservation wages. …Reservation wages indicate the wage threshold for which individual workers are inclined to supply their working …

changing local labour market conditions. For many countries and periods, an inverse relationship between wages and unemployment …In the last decade we have seen extensive international research on the extent to which wages of individuals respond to … due to the use of aggregate unemployment rates and other labour market characteristics for groups. A maximum likelihood …

work which has examined the association between employee wages and unemployment - the 'wage curve'. … enter into employment, and unemployment in the local area district. Largely unexplored in the literature this adds to the …

discusses regional unemployment disparities by introducing a wage curve based on efficiency wages into the New Economic …Regional labor markets are characterized by huge disparities of unemployment rates. Models of the New Economic …

In this paper, we use data from the National Household Survey (PNAD) for Brazil to investigate the dynamics of the … finding suggests that the falling urban wage premium has contributed to the reduction in inequality observed in Brazil in the …