Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/21148 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 295
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using Polish Labour Force Survey data, we examine whether competition for labour has induced individual pay to depend on outside options, availability and quality of jobs. Exploiting the lack of inter-regional job and worker flows we estimate the elasticity of individual pay, amongst a rich set of individual characteristics, to be approximately -0.1 for local unemployment (job shortages) and + 0.1 for local job reallocation (restructuring). Variations in local labour market conditions explain approximately 50 per cent of the differences in expected individual earnings across regions, while differences in inherited human capital and occupation structures explain the rest.
Subjects: 
Wage determination
unemployment
job reallocation and polish regions
JEL: 
O5
J6
L0
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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