Following Phillip's original work on the UK, applied research on unemployment and wages has been dominated by the … rate of unemployment. This 'wage curve' is found to have an elasticity of approximately -0.1. Contrary to the Phillips …

regional (or industry) unemployment. This "wage curve" is estimated using microeconomic data for Britain, the US, Canada, Korea …, Austria, Italy, Holland, Switzerland, Norway, and Germany, The average unemployment elasticity of pay is approximately -0 …

This paper, which follows in an LSE tradition begun by Phillips and Sargan, examines the role of unemployment in … a variety of data sets as a check on the robustness of results, and 3) studies the effects of unemployment on the real … curve. The curve has a negative gradient at low levels of unemployment, but becomes horizontal at relatively high levels of …

pay and the local unemployment rate -- in modern U.S. data. Consistent with recent evidence from more than 40 other …'s theoretical framework: (i) wages are higher in states with more generous unemployment benefits, (ii) the perceived probability of … job-finding is lower in states with higher unemployment, and (iii) employees are less happy in states that have higher …

precursor to eventual sharp rises in unemployment in that state. The elasticity exceeds unity: a doubling of the rate of home …-ownership in a U.S. state is followed in the long-run by more than a doubling of the later unemployment rate. What mechanism might …