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Individual pay and outside options : evidence from the Polish labour force survey
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Date Issued
2001-05
Date Available
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Abstract
Using Polish Labour Force Survey data, we examine whether competition for labour has
induced individual pay to depend on outside options, availability and quality of jobs.
Exploiting the lack of inter-regional job and worker flows we estimate the elasticity of individual pay, amongst a rich set of individual characteristics, to be approximately -0.1 for local unemployment (job shortages) and + 0.1 for local job reallocation (restructuring). Variations in local labour market conditions explain approximately 50 per cent of the differences in expected individual earnings across regions, while differences in inherited human capital and occupation structures explain the rest.
Type of Material
Working Paper
Publisher
Institute for the Study of Labor
Series
IZA Discussion Paper Series
DP No. 295
Copyright (Published Version)
2001 The Institute for the Study of Labor
Classification
J6
L0
O5
Subject – LCSH
Labor market--Poland
Wages--Poland
Regional disparities--Poland
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Language
English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
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