This paper analyses the entire wage effects of unemployment for an especially long observation period. In a three …

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 …

wage pressure. Lagged wages are important in explaining wage growth, together with unemployment. This suggests that a wage …I argue in this paper that the estimation of wage curves and NAWRUs at the country level suffers from spatial …, compared to estimating at the underlying regional level. The distribution of regional unemployment rates within countries over …

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 …

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 …

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 …

males in Brazil are significantly more responsive to local unemployment rates (-0.13) than their female counterparts. In … Federative Units over the period 2002 - 2009. We find evidence in favor of the Brazilian wage curve with an unemployment … elasticity of -0.08 when the lagged unemployment rate is used as an instrument for current unemployment rate. We also find that …

wages and the local unemployment rate - within a number of occupations. It exploits the Bank of Italy’s Household Survey and …