Wage Moderation in France
September 1, 2002
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Summary
Using household level data for France from 1990 to 2000, we estimate a relationship between wages and unemployment taking into account compositional, time and regional effects. We show that this relationship shifted outward during the 1990s most likely because of a structural change in workers' behavior, i.e. "wage moderation". The outward shift was particularly large between 1996 and 2000 and undoubtedly contributed strongly to the exceptional employment performance during that period.
Subject: Employment, Labor, Unemployment, Unemployment rate, Wage bargaining, Wages
Keywords: bargaining, Employment, employment effect, Employmnet, Europe, growth rate, labor intensity, labor market, price level, real product wage, structural change, take-home pay, Unemployment, unemployment income, Unemployment rate, wage, Wage bargaining, wage moderation, wages, WP
Pages:
31
Volume:
2002
DOI:
Issue:
151
Series:
Working Paper No. 2002/151
Stock No:
WPIEA1512002
ISBN:
9781451857047
ISSN:
1018-5941
