wages are rigid. We explore whether this explanation is consistent with the data. We show that the wage of newly hired … workers, unlike the aggregate wage, is volatile and responds one-to-one to changes in labor productivity. In order to … jobs. This form of wage rigidity does not affect job creation and thus cannot explain the unemployment volatility puzzle. …

wages are rigid. We explore whether this explanation is consistent with the data. We show that the wage of newly hired … workers, unlike the aggregate wage, is volatile and responds one-to-one to changes in labor productivity. In order to … jobs. This form of wage rigidity does not affect job creation and thus cannot explain the unemployment volatility puzzle …

, linked to a survey of managers, we find support for the main predictions of a stylised theoretical framework of wage … describe how contract incompleteness and wage cuts vary across different jobs. These findings provide the first observational … quantitative evidence that managerial beliefs about contractual incompleteness can account for their hesitancy over nominal wage …

In employment relationships, a wage is an installment payment on an implicit long-term agreement between a worker and a … firm. The price of labor that impacts firm's hiring decisions, instead, reflects the hiring wage as well as the impact of … substantially more pro-cyclical than the new-hire wage or the average wage. The strong procyclicality of the price of labor calls …

employment matches. To address both concerns, we estimate cyclicality in labor's user cost exploiting the long-run wage in a … recession affects user cost: It lowers the new-hire wage; it lowers wages going forward in the match; but it also results in …

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 …% of wage cyclicality in the data arises from incentives. A standard model without incentives calibrated to weakly …

occupation switchers are highly cyclical. We uncover higher wage cyclicality also among workers who switch occupations within the … same firm. Moreover, wage cyclicality increases, the more different current and previous occupations' required skills. Our … quality in worker's occupation, rather than wage flexibility. …

through the analysis of individual wage sequences. These suggest that the downwardly rigid wage sequences implied by implicit …

through the analysis of individual wage sequences. These suggest that the downwardly rigid wage sequences implied by implicit …

Wage rigidity is an important explanation for unemployment fluctuations. In benchmark models wages for new hires are … information, to measure the wage for new hires. We show that our measure of the wage for new hires is rigid downward and flexible …