Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/90076 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 7812
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper analyzes the Polish wage curve using individual data from the Polish Labor Force Survey (LFS) at the 16 NUTS2 regions over the period 1999 - 2010. This survey does not gather information on wages of self-employed or paid family workers. After excluding the unemployed, inactive and missing observations, we are left with over 102,924 observations. We find evidence in favor of the Polish wage curve with an unemployment elasticity of -0.06. We also find that males in Poland are significantly more responsive to local unemployment rates (-0.08) than their female counterparts (-0.04). Moreover, if the lagged unemployment rate is used as an instrument for current unemployment rate, we find that the unemployment elasticity increases substantially for less experienced and temporary workers.
Subjects: 
wage curve
fixed effects
regional labor markets
JEL: 
C26
J30
J60
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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