A Wage Curve for the Interwar Labour Market: Evidence from a Panel of Norwegian Manufacturing Industries

Gunnar Bårdsen, Jurgen Doornik and Jan Tore Klovland ()
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Jan Tore Klovland: Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration

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Abstract: We present an econometric analysis of wage behaviour in Norway during the interwar years. Applying GMM estimation methods to a newly constructed panel of manufacturing industry data, we find that the interwar years do not seem to be such an anomalous time period as has been suggested with respect to wage behaviour. We estimate a long-run wage curve that has all the modern features of being homogeneous in prices, proportional to productivity, and having an unemployment elasticity of -0.1. We also present some new Monte Carlo evidence on the properties of the estimators used.

JEL-codes: E24 N24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15 pages
Date: 2000-05-15, Revised 2001-04-15
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