-specific variable, it is known that there are K reservation wages that could be posted, but generically never more than two actually are … posted in equilibrium. What is unknown is when we get two wages, and which wages are actually posted. For an example with K … combination of posted reservation wages, depending on parameters. We also show how wages, profits, and unemployment depend on …

importance of incomplete markets when risk-averse agents are subject to idiosyncratic employment shocks. A version of the model … calibrated to the U.S. shows that market incompleteness affects individual behavior and aggregate conditions: it reduces wages …

Over the past decade, productivity-adjusted wages have grown at a slower pace in Japan than in other rich countries … felt in all advanced economies. Reforms aimed at increasing productivity in services and reducing gaps in employment … protection and benefits between regular and nonregular workers could help put Japan's wages on an upward trajectory in the medium …

In flow models of the labor market, wages are determined by negotiations between workers and employers on the surplus …

institutional changes introduced by the 1988 Constitution lowered the sensitivity of real wages to changes in labor market slack and …