present labor market conditions. Furthermore, we revisit recent findings of greater wage cyclicality of new hires. Overall, we … cyclical than those of existing workers. We argue that much of the excess wage cyclicality of new hires discussed by the …

) and an on-the-job search model (Hagedorn and Manovskii, 2013) for the wage formation of different worker types over the …), we find that previous evidence for the excess wage cyclicality of job changers can be entirely explained by cyclical …-employee matches, we also find no excess wage cyclicality for new hires from unemployment - the key worker type's wage for …

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. …

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 show that firms were able to respond to the Great Recession with substantial real wage cuts and by recruiting more …

backloaded in good times and frontloaded in bad times. We prove that there exists a unique spot target wage, which serves as an … attraction point for smooth wage adjustments. The structural model is estimated on matched employer-employee data from Sweden …