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. Using matched employer-employee dataset, I adopted the estimation strategy proposed by Guiso et al. (2005) to evaluate wage … Portuguese datasets. I found that firms do insure workers against product market uncertainties, but the magnitude of the wage … response differs depending on the nature of the shock. Broadly speaking, the wage response to permanent shocks is twice as high …
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, endogenous productivity and downward wage rigidity (DWR) which challenges these results. The model features a non-vertical long …
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In this paper we incorporate a labor market with matching frictions and wage rigidities into the New Keynesian business … affect the transmission process of monetary policy. The model allows real wage rigidities to interact with adjustments in … an interest rate innovation depends on the degree of wage rigidity. Generally, more rigid wages translate into more …
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Using 136 United States macroeconomic indicators from 1973 to 2017, and a factor augmented vector autoregression (FAVAR) framework with sign restrictions, we investigate the effects of three structural macroeconomic shocks - monetary, demand, and supply - on the labour market outcomes of black...
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This paper provides evidence on the role of non-base wage components as a channel for firms to adjust labour costs in …–2013. We find that firms subject to nominal wage rigidities, which prevent them from adjusting base wages, are more likely to … cut non-base wage components in order to adjust labour costs when needed. Firms thus use non-base wage components as a …
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The highly dynamic nature of the COVID-19 crisis poses an unprecedented challenge to policy makers around the world to take appropriate income-stabilizing countermeasures. To properly design such policy measures, it is important to quantify their effects in real-time. However, data on the...
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