Hessel Oosterbeek

Hessel Oosterbeek

Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Amsterdam · Researcher, VU Amsterdam

Further evidence on the wage curve

Wim Groot and Eddie Mekkelholt and Hessel Oosterbeek

Economics Letters 38, 355-359 (1992)

In this paper we replicate and extend the wage curve proposed by Blanchflower and Oswald (1990). Our replication only partly confirms their findings. Our extensions relate to gender effects and to a refinement of the unemployment measure. The results show that wage curves for males and females differ. For females unemployment both has a wage effect and a discouraged worker effect.

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