Bårdsen, Gunnar; Doornik, Jurgen; Klovland, Jan Tore - Norges Bank - 2004
Using a newly constructed panel of manufacturing industry data for interwar Norway, we estimate a long-run wage curve for the 1930s that has all the modern features of being homogeneous in prices, proportional to productivity, and having an unemployment elasticity of -0.1. This result is more...