Following Blanchflower and Oswald, a “wage curve†describes the wage level as a downward-sloping convex curve of the regional unemployment rate. This article makes two major contributions in the analysis of the wage curve. First, it is recognized that potential endogeneity of the...

S<sc>uedekum</sc> J., W<sc>olf</sc> K. and B<sc>lien</sc> U. Cultural diversity and local labour markets, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. The diversity of nationalities of foreign workers in the German labour market has increased considerably over the period 1995-2006. This paper investigates the effects of this diversity for native...

Blanchflower and Oswald [Blanchflower, David G. and Oswald, Andrew J., 1994a, The Wage Curve, (Cambridge, MA, MIT Press), Blanchflower, David G. and Oswald, Andrew J., 1994b, Estimating a Wage Curve for Britain 1973-90, The Economic Journal 104, 1025-1043. Eine praktische Einführung, Nürnberg]...

A wage curve is a decreasing function of wages on the regional unemployment rate. Most empirical studies on the wage curve ignore possible spatial interaction effects between the regions which are the primary units of research. This paper reconsiders the western German wage curve with a special...

The successful integration in employment of people who are subject to the Social Security Code II mainly depends on the different regional economic conditions. This study identifies indicators that affect integration on the regional level and classifies the responsible public institutions. The...