The effect of labour tightness on wages at the regional level in Central Europe

Lajos Tamás Szabó
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Lajos Tamás Szabó: Central Bank of Hungary, Budapest, Hungary

Journal for Labour Market Research, 2024, vol. 58

Abstract: "I estimate the effect of tightness on wages in Hungary and Slovakia. The Mortensen Pissarides model predicts a positive relationship but the empirical evidence is scarce. I instrument tightness by the distance of a district from the Austrian border, interacted with a dummy that marks the opening of the Austrian labour market to these countries in 2011. I find a positive effect of tightness on wages, which is in line with the conclusion of the models. If tightness increase by 1 per cent than ceteris paribus wages increase by roughly 0.2 per cent both in Hungary and Slovakia as well." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Keywords: Österreich; Slowakei; Ungarn; Auswanderung; Auswirkungen; Einkommenseffekte; Einwanderung; Freizügigkeit; Grenzgebiet; Grenzpendler; internationaler Vergleich; Ost-West-Wanderung; regionaler Arbeitsmarkt; Arbeitskräftemangel; Arbeitsmigration; 2006-2019 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J61 J63 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-12-09
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