Gaur, Meghana; Grigsby, John; Hazell, Jonathon; Ndiaye, … - 2023
We introduce dynamic incentive contracts into a model of unemployment dynamics and present three results. First, wage …-order equivalent in an economy with flexible incentive pay and without bargaining, vis-a-vis an economy with rigid wages. Second, wage … procyclical wages, matches unemployment dynamics in our incentive pay model calibrated to strongly procyclical wages. …