Publication type
Journal Article
Author
Publication date
June 1, 2012
Summary:
The wage curve literature consistently finds a negative relationship between regional unemployment rates and regional wages; the most widely accepted theoretical explanations interpret the unemployment rate as a measure of job competition. This paper proposes new ways of measuring job competition, alternative to the unemployment rate, and finds that the negative relationship still holds when job competition is measured following the job search literature. While for men the wage impact of the theoretically based measures of job competition is rather similar to the wage impact of the unemployment rate, for women the difference is substantial.
Published in
Regional Studies
Volume and page numbers
Volume: 46 , p.611 -620
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2010.521145
ISSN
343404
Subjects
Notes
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