Why are regional unemployment differentials in Europe so persistent if, as the wage curve literature demonstrates …. The magnitude of the income effect generated by this compensating differential is consistent with a -0.10 wage curve …

because South Africa has a national unemployment rate of over 30%. We find that the wage curve elasticity persists over a much …

This paper investigates the flexibility of real wages at the regional level by estimating the wage curve, the … district-level unemployment and wage data in the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2001. Previous estimates of the wage curve for the …

persistent if, as the wage curve literature demonstrates, there is no compensation in labour markets? We hypothesize that workers … compensating differential is consistent with a -0.10 wage curve elasticity. These findings weaken the case for regional support …

This paper provides evidence for the existence of a wage curve -- a micro-econometric association between the level of … countries, the wage curve in the United States has a long-run elasticity of approximately -0.1. In line with the paper … unemployment. We conclude that it is reasonable to view the wage curve as an empirical law of economics …

been found. In their book, The Wage Curve, Blanchflower and Oswald argued that the unemployment elasticity of pay is around ….5 and +0.1. There is also considerable heterogeneity among wage curve studies in terms of data and model specification. This … methods give similar results for our sample. An unbiased estimate of the wage curve elasticity at the means of study …