Konferenzbeitrag

How Flexible are Wages in EU Accession Countries?

The transition to a market economy and increased economic integration have fostered regional disparities in Central and Eastern European countries. This paper investigates whether and to what extent wages could act as an equilibrating mechanism in these countries by adjusting to local market conditions. Using regional data for the 1990s, we estimate static and dynamic wage curve models for Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and Romania. We find empirical evidence for a wage curve in Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland suggesting that wages could help equilibrate labour markets following labour demand shocks. In the case of Romania, the unemployment elasticity of pay is not significantly different from zero.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: 44th Congress of the European Regional Science Association: "Regions and Fiscal Federalism", 25th - 29th August 2004, Porto, Portugal

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Iara, Anna
Traistaru, Iulia
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
European Regional Science Association (ERSA)
(wo)
Louvain-la-Neuve
(wann)
2004

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Konferenzbeitrag

Beteiligte

  • Iara, Anna
  • Traistaru, Iulia
  • European Regional Science Association (ERSA)

Entstanden

  • 2004

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