01717cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF009822 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451869057 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Vamvakidis, Athanasios. Regional Wage Differentiation and Wage Bargaining Systems in the EU / Athanasios Vamvakidis. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008. 1 online resource (17 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students The theoretical literature has argued that a centralized wage bargaining system may result in low regional wage differentiation and high regional unemployment differentials. The empirical literature has found that centralized wage bargaining leads to lower wage inequality for different skills, industries and population groups, but has not investigated its impact on regional wage differentiation. Empirical evidence in this paper for EU regions for the period 1980-2000 suggests that countries with more coordinated wage bargaining systems have lower regional wage differentials, after controlling for regional productivity and unemployment differentials. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2008/043 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2008/043/001.2008.issue-043-en.xml IMF e-Library