Spatial heterogeneity in the wage curve

Steven Deller ()

Economics Letters, 2011, vol. 113, issue 3, 231-233

Abstract: Blanchflower and Oswald argue that the wage curve is a predictable empirical relationship with the “unemployment elasticity of pay” of about −0.1. Using GWR I find evidence of significant spatial heterogeneity in the unemployment elasticity of pay for US counties.

Keywords: J3; R1; Wages; Unemployment; Spatial variation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2011.04.015

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