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  "title": "Regional Wage Differentiation and Wage Bargaining Systems in the EU",
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  "summary": "The theoretical literature has argued that a centralized wage bargaining system may result in low regional wage differentiation and high regional unemployment differentials.",
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      "content": "- Theoretical literature: centralized wage bargaining may result in low regional wage differentiation and high regional unemployment differentials.\n- Empirical literature prior to this paper: centralized wage bargaining leads to lower wage inequality across different skills, industries, and population groups, but had not investigated regional wage differentiation.\n- Contribution of this paper: provides empirical evidence for EU regions for the period 1980-2000 on the relationship between wage bargaining coordination and regional wage differentials."
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      "content": "- Empirical evidence for EU regions for the period 1980-2000 suggests that countries with more coordinated wage bargaining systems have lower regional wage differentials.\n- This relationship holds after controlling for regional productivity and unemployment differentials."
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      "heading": "Subject matter and keywords",
      "content": "- Subject: Productivity, Unemployment, Unemployment rate, Wage bargaining, Wages\n- Keywords: country, Italy, wage, wage differential, WP"
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      "content": "- Geographic scope: EU regions\n- Time coverage: period 1980-2000\n- Pages: 17\n- Volume: 2008\n- Issue: 043\n- Series: Working Paper No. 2008/043\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- wp0843\n  - wp0843 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - wp0843 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2016/12/31/regional-wage-differentiation-and-wage-bargaining-systems-in-the-eu-21653"
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    "Authors: Athanasios Vamvakidis",
    "Published: February 1, 2008",
    "Series: IMF Working Papers",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451869057.001",
    "Theoretical literature: centralized wage bargaining may result in low regional wage differentiation and high regional unemployment differentials.",
    "Empirical literature prior to this paper: centralized wage bargaining leads to lower wage inequality across different skills, industries, and population groups, but had not investigated regional wage differentiation.",
    "Contribution of this paper: provides empirical evidence for EU regions for the period 1980-2000 on the relationship between wage bargaining coordination and regional wage differentials.",
    "Empirical evidence for EU regions for the period 1980-2000 suggests that countries with more coordinated wage bargaining systems have lower regional wage differentials.",
    "This relationship holds after controlling for regional productivity and unemployment differentials.",
    "Subject: Productivity, Unemployment, Unemployment rate, Wage bargaining, Wages",
    "Keywords: country, Italy, wage, wage differential, WP",
    "Geographic scope: EU regions",
    "Time coverage: period 1980-2000",
    "Pages: 17",
    "Volume: 2008",
    "Issue: 043",
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