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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.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: 44th Congress of the European Regional Science Association: "Regions and Fiscal Federalism", 25th - 29th August 2004, Porto, Portugal
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Wirtschaft
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Iara, Anna
Traistaru, Iulia
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Veröffentlichung
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European Regional Science Association (ERSA)
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Louvain-la-Neuve
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2004
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Konferenzbeitrag
Associated
- Iara, Anna
- Traistaru, Iulia
- European Regional Science Association (ERSA)
Time of origin
- 2004
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