Search Results - subject:"wage curve."

Hours and wages in the depression : British engineering, 1926-1938

Hart, Robert A. - 2000

-rate and piecerate workers. The findings have interesting implications for Phillips curve and wage curve studies. …

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Wages and Profitability: Norwegian Manufacturing 1967Q1 - 1998Q2

Bjørnstad, Roger; Nymoen, Ragnar - 1999

Economic theories of imperfectely competitive labour markets predict that wages are linked to profits. In spite of this, profit variables are not explicitely specified in empirical models of wage formation that otherwise appear to be interpretable, to have well behaved residuals and to have...

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Wage Flexibility and Contract Structure in Germany

VILHUBERT, Lars - Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de … - 1999

In this paper, we look at how labor market conditions at different points during the tenure of individuals with firms are correlated with current earnings. Using data on individuals from the German Socioeconomic Panel for the 1985-1994 period, we find that both the contemporaneous unemployment...

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Dimensions of the Wage-Unemployment Relationship in the Nordic Countries: Wage Flexibility without Wage Curves

Albæk, Karsten; Asplund, Rita; Blomskog, Stig; Barth, … - Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet - 1999

wages at the regional level. There is no evidence of a wage curve, nor of a Phillips curve, at the regional level in the …

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Unemployment and wages in South Africa: A spatial approach

Kingdon, Geeta G.; Knight, John B. - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 1999

, a relationship christened a ‘wage curve’. This contradicts the conventional model of the labour market in which high … unemployment regions have higher wages to compensate for search and other costs. This paper discovers a wage curve in South Africa …, a country with several times the typical unemployment rate of OECD countries. The wage curve elasticity in South Africa …

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Prices, productivity, and wage bargaining in open economies

Forslund, Anders; Gottfries, Nils; Westermark, Andreas - 2008 - rev.

According to the standard union bargaining model, unemployment benefits should have big effects on wages, but product market prices and productivity should play no role in the wage bargain. We formulate an alternative strategic bargaining model, where labour and product market conditions...

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