TY - JOUR

T1 - Relative wage and unemployment changes in Poland

T2 - Microeconometric evidence

AU - Puhani, Patrick A.

N1 - Funding Information: Part of this research was undertaken with support from the European Commission’s Phare ACE Programme under the project P97-8055-R ‘Labour Market Flexibility in the Wake of EU Accession—Poland Compared With the Iberian Experience.’ The content of the publication is the sole responsibility of the author and it in no way represents the views of the Commission or its services. The author also gratefully acknowledges financial support by the Volkswagen Foundation, Hannover. Many thanks go to Jan Witkowski, Central Statistical Office (GUS) and Warsaw School of Economics, without whom this research would not have been possible, for his co-operation and advice within this project. I am indebted to Michael Lechner, Ruth Miquel, Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski, Viktor Steiner, Katherine Terrell, an anonymous referee, Una-Louise Bell, Herbert S. Buscher, Bernd Fitzenberger, Leszek Kucharski, Rafael Lalive, Marek Pycia, as well as to seminar participants at the Universities of Konstanz, St. Gallen, and Warwick and the ASSA meetings in Atlanta, GA, 2002, for helpful comments on this paper. All remaining errors are my own.

PY - 2002/6

Y1 - 2002/6

N2 - We estimate changes in the Polish wage and unemployment structures between the years 1994 and 1998 in order to identify labour market characteristics associated with increasing and decreasing relative demand, as well as relative wage rigidities. The evidence shows that relative demand for workers with a low level of education decreased. Whereas relative wages for workers with basic vocational education also fell in this situation, relative wages of workers with only primary education did not, pointing to a relative wage rigidity for this group which faced an above-average unemployment risk throughout the observation period.

AB - We estimate changes in the Polish wage and unemployment structures between the years 1994 and 1998 in order to identify labour market characteristics associated with increasing and decreasing relative demand, as well as relative wage rigidities. The evidence shows that relative demand for workers with a low level of education decreased. Whereas relative wages for workers with basic vocational education also fell in this situation, relative wages of workers with only primary education did not, pointing to a relative wage rigidity for this group which faced an above-average unemployment risk throughout the observation period.

KW - Identification

KW - Transition

KW - Wage rigidity

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U2 - 10.1016/S0939-3625(02)00021-3

DO - 10.1016/S0939-3625(02)00021-3

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:0036311292

VL - 26

SP - 99

EP - 126

JO - Economic systems

JF - Economic systems

SN - 0939-3625

IS - 2

ER -