On th Identification of Relative Wage Rigidity Dynamics.

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We present a new and simple empirical methodology to identify relative wage rigidity dynamics. The methodology is applied to data from the Polish Labour Force Survey for the period 1994 to 1998. We estimate ceteris paribus changes in relative wage and unemployment differentials for various labour market defining characteristics. A simultaneous increase in the relative wage and the unemployment likelihood is defined as a relative wage rigidity dynamic for a labour market characteristic. We find that the Polish wage structure generated hardly any rigidities between 1994 and 1998 nor did it reduce possibly existing rigidities during that period.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 226

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials ; Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: General ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
• Subject: Wages ; unemployment ; rigidities ; identification ; Poland ; Lohnrigidität ; Lohnstruktur ; Arbeitslosigkeit ; Übergangswirtschaft ; Schätzung ; Polen

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Puhani, Patrick A.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2000

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/21073
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET