Wage Curve Analyses of Establishment Data from Western Germany
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3223690 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lutz Bellmann (0000-0002-4892-5454, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung), Uwe Blien (0000-0003-4617-3452, IZA - Institute of Labor Economics) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 851 |
| Publication date | 2001-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Industrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2696116 |
| OpenAlex | W3121811175 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 31 |
Using the IAB Establishment Panel, which is representative for western Germany, the authors find that establishment-level wages reacted to variations in the regional unemployment rate. The elasticity of wages with respect to unemployment, they estimate, was about −0.1. This responsiveness of the wage to regional variation is close to estimates found by other researchers (using individual rather than establishment data) for other countries, and contradicts the view that Germany's labor market, largely due to the nature of collective bargaining in that country, is relatively inflexible. Possible explanations for this finding are that the negotiated wage is treated like a minimum wage, with firms deviating from it in order to increase work effort; bargaining between firms and individual workers or between firms and works councils produces wage differences; or collective agreements do not restrict firms to the extent that is often assumed
Collective bargaining · Demographic economics · Econometrics · Economics · Efficiency wage · Labour economics · Macroeconomics · Order (exchange) · Panel data · Political science · Unemployment · Wage · Wage bargaining · Work (physics) · Economic Policies and Impacts · German Economic Analysis & Policies · Global trade and economics · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
Unemployment
Econometric Analysis of Panel Data
Labor Demand
Efficiency Wages and the Inter-Industry Wage Structure
Regional Evolutions
Multilevel mixed linear model analysis using iterative generalized least squares
Analysis of Panel Data
Employer Size and Dual Labor Markets
Interindustry and Interregion Differentials
An Illustration of a Pitfall in Estimating the Effects of Aggregate Variables on Micro Units
Labor Market Rigidities
Earning Curves and Wage Curves
Estimating a Wage Curve for Britain 1973-90
Insider Forces and Wage Determination
What We Know and Do Not Know About the Natural Rate of Unemployment
Multilevel Cross-Classified Models
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2010 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |