wage level (not on the rate of change of pay or prices) . The paper finds evidence - on British and US data - of a wage … curve. The curve has a negative gradient at low levels of unemployment, but becomes horizontal at relatively high levels of …

In 1994, Blanchflower and Oswald reported that they have found an "empirical law of economics" - the Wage Curve … especially for the Anglo-Saxon countries. Our paper reconsiders the western German Wage Curve using disaggregated regional data … autoregressive but far from unit root. This means that this wage equation is not a pure Phillips curve, nor a static Wage Curve, and …

Based on a wage curve approach we examine the labor market effects of migration in Germany. The wage curve relies on … employ the IABS, a two percent sample of the German labor force. We find that the elasticity of the wage curve is …

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 …

The relevance of spatial effects in the wage curve can be rationalized by the model of monopsonistic competition in … existence of an East German wage curve. Due to the nonstationarity of spatial data, a global panel cointegration approach is …. The analysis gives evidence on a locally but not a spatially cointegrated wage curve for East Germany. …

The wage curve introduced by Blanchflower and Oswald (1990, 1994) postulates a negative correlation between wages and … a long-run wage curve with spatial effects. …