The Polish Wage Curve: Micro Panel Data Analysis Based on the Polish Labor Force Survey

Badi Baltagi and Bartlomiej Rokicki

No 7812, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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.

Keywords: regional labor markets; fixed effects; wage curve (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C26 J30 J60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15 pages
Date: 2013-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lab, nep-ltv, nep-tra and nep-ure
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Published - published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2014,49, 36-47.

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