Gucciardi, Gianluca - 2014
This paper provides some evidence on the existence of the wage curve - the negative relationship between individual … draws data from 1977 to 2008. An occupation-level wage curve exists for all the employees, while it holds only for a sub …-set of the self-employed. In particular, the wage curve has an elasticity of approximately -0.05 for the blue-collars, an …