Gaur, Meghana; Grigsby, John; Hazell, Jonathon; Ndiaye, … - 2024
We introduce dynamic incentive contracts into a model of inflation and unemployment dynamics. Our main result is that … wage cyclicality from incentives neither affects the slope of the Phillips curve for prices nor dampens unemployment … dynamics. The impulse response of unemployment in economies with flexible, procyclical incentive pay is first-order equivalent …