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other European countries, the wage adjustment occurs in just one period, with the elasticity of wages to unemployment being …
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This paper summarizes evidence for the existence of a wage curve - a downward-sloping relationship between the level of pay and the local unemployment rate - in modern micro data. At the time of writing, the curve has been found in 40 nations. Its elasticity is approximately -0.1.
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of the wage curve at the regional level, i.e. the relationship between the regional level of wages and regional … unemployment. Real wages adjust to changes in local unemployment in districts with low unemployment rates, a low share of public … sector, wages are negotiated at the economy-wide level, while the variance in regional unemployment does not play a role. …
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Estimates of the NAIRU are usually derived either from a Phillips curve or from a wage curve. This paper investigates the correspondence between the operational NAIRU-concepts and the steady state of a dynamic wage-price model. We derive the parameter restrictions that secure that...
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. According to their empirical results, the elasticity of wages with respect to regional unemployment is -0.1. This holds …
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costs, through movements from overtime to short-time schedules. Nominal wages dropped relatively modestly while real wages …
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Blanchflower and Oswald (1994) reported that they have found an 'empirical law of economics'--the Wage Curve. Our paper reconsiders the western German Wage Curve using disaggregated regional data and is based on almost one million employees drawn from the Federal Employment Services of Germany...
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between wages and unemployment across regions in the Nordic labor markets once regional fixed effects are accounted for. Wage … 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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