This paper introduces technological progress into an efficiency wage model, and argues that changes in the rate of technical change affect not only the demand for but also the effective supply of labour. This creates a new mechanism through which technological progress impacts on the wage of...

Output fluctuations are driven by expectations about the degree of competition in the product market (and R&D sector). We examine how the characteristics of endogenous cycles change in the long run, as labour productivity grows faster. Main results: (i) expansion (or contraction) occurs more (or...

Many OECD economies suffered a productivity slowdown beginning in the early 1970s. However, the increase in unemployment that followed this slowdown was more pronounced in European economies relative to the US. In this paper we present an efficiency wage model, which enables us to identify five...