-specific heterogeneity. Our results suggest that there is evidence of a negative relationship in wage-unemployment space. The estimated … unemployment elasticity of pay for UK males is approximately ?0.14 and this elasticity is robust to a number of alternative … order polynomial terms for unemployment. The main findings of the paper, therefore, are that the wage-unemployment …

The main aim of this paper is to study European regional disparities in unemployment, considering regional productive … latter generally measured in terms of unemployment rates. In a recent paper (Amendola, Caroleo Coppola, 2004) we have … paper we estimate a panel data model where the dependent variable is the regional unemployment rate and the independent …

. By comparing past predictions to observed values, we find that the Phillips curve with the average unemployment rate in … districts with prevalently low unemployment rates delivers more accurate predictions of aggregated wage inflation than the … Phillips curve with the overall unemployment rate. The identification of specific groups of districts is based on our estimates …

's unemployment rate had there been no CEPA, we find that the CEPA effects gradually increases over time and eventually reached a … constant level of reducing Hong Kong's unemployment rate by 9% a year. …