increased the student population and share of high-skilled workers in the region. Yet, we find no effect on regional wages or …

inverse relation between local wages and local unemployment should be related to sectoral wage bargaining on the national … level. For that purpose a theoretical model is presented which relates firm specific wages with wage negotiations on a supra … explanation with efficiency and negotiated wages cannot be tested directly, some supporting results are found. …

In many European countries, wages are determined by collective bargaining agreements intended to improve wages and … West more productive than the East in Germany - but have adopted different models of wage bargaining. Italy sets wages … in nominal terms and almost no relationship between local productivity and local nominal wages, while Germany has larger …

characteristics. Our results provide several novel insights into the regional dimension of the GPG. First, men's wages are more … strongly correlated with the regional GPG than those of women, indicating that their wages drive the regional variation in the … GPG much more than the wages of women. Second, the decomposition results reveal pronounced differences in the impact of …