Center for Policy Research
Working Paper
The Spatial Polish Wage Curve with Gender Effects: Evidence from the Polish Labor Survey
Badi H. Baltagi & Bartlomiej Rokicki
C.P.R. Working Paper No. 171
July 2014
Abstract
This paper reconsiders the Polish wage curve using individual data from the Polish Labor Force Survey (LFS) at the 16 NUTS2 level allowing for spatial spillovers between regions. In addition it estimates the total and gender-specific regional unemployment rate elasticities on individual wages. The paper finds significant spatial unemployment spillovers across Polish regions. In addition, it finds that the results for the Polish wage curve are sensitive to gender-specific regional unemployment rates. This is especially true for women.