Koenig, Felix; Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2016
Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment … occasionally renegotiated. We argue that one source of the wage flexibility puzzles is plausibly the model for the determination of … reservation wages, and consider an alternative reservation wage model based on reference dependence in job search. This extension …