Arbeitspapier

Regional adjustment dynamics

The aim of the paper is to develop a theoretical framework for analyzing regional adjustment processes after idiosyncratic shocks. The model builds on the macroeconomic approach with monopolistic competition on goods and labor markets. It is shown how interregional factor mobility affects wage-setting behavior and labor supply. The dynamics of this extended model are explicitly taken into account. For a special case we can derive the characteristics of the adjustment process analytically. Under certain conditions the model exhibits hysteresis, i.e. temporary shocks on the price level or the unemployment rate can have a permanent effect on production and potential labor supply. It is argued that a suitable method for investigating regional adjustment processes empirically would be a panel VAR approach with integrated and co-integrated variables.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: HWWA Discussion Paper ; No. 146

Classification
Wirtschaft
Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General
Subject
Regional adjustments
wage formation
wage-price spiral
migration
regional unemployment
hysteresis
Regionalökonomik
Schock
Wirtschaftliche Anpassung
Regionale Lohnstruktur
Preis-Lohn-Spirale
Regionale Arbeitsmobilität
Regionale Arbeitslosigkeit
Hysteresis
Theorie

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Möller, Joachim
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWA)
(where)
Hamburg
(when)
2001

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Möller, Joachim
  • Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWA)

Time of origin

  • 2001

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