Several authors have proposed staggered wage bargaining as a way to introduce sticky wages into search and matching … a series of estimated shocks from US data into a search and matching model with sticky prices and wages. I compare the … implications of how the sticky wages enter into the hiring decision, and there seems to be a tradeoff between generating business …

wages and the local unemployment rate - within a number of occupations. It exploits the Bank of Italy's Household Survey and …

proximate causes have been reversed (e.g., after wages in the high-unemployment regions have fallen relative to those in the low … negotiations due to a drop in the replacement rate or firing costs, leading to a fall in wages, (ii) hiring subsidies, and (iii …

replicate these findings in a search model, it must be that wages are rigid in ongoing jobs but flexible at the start of new … wages are rigid. We explore whether this explanation is consistent with the data. We show that the wage of newly hired …