INFLATION AND THE DISPERSION OF REAL WAGES
The article studies the effects of inflation on real wage dispersion in a search-monetary framework. The economy is characterized by frictions in both the goods and the labor markets. In the goods market, buyers and sellers bargain over prices, whereas in the labor market firms post wage offers. In equilibrium, a lower inflation rate increases the dispersion of real wages. This result is consistent with both the observed trends in wage dispersion and the inflation rate witnessed in the 1980s and the 1990s in the United States and the empirical literature linking reduced inflation to greater wage dispersion. Copyright ©2008 by the Economics Department Of The University Of Pennsylvania And Osaka University Institute Of Social And Economic Research Association.
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2008
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Authors: | Kumar, Alok |
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International Economic Review. - Department of Economics. - Vol. 49.2008, 2, p. 377-399
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Department of Economics |
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