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combination of posted reservation wages, depending on parameters. We also show how wages, profits, and unemployment depend on …-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 …
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relates average unemployment to average wage inflation; the curve is virtually vertical for high inflation rates but becomes … policies can play an important role in shaping the trade-off. Third, nominal wages tend to be endogenously rigid also upward …, at low inflation. Fourth, when inflation decreases, volatility of unemployment increases whereas the volatility of …
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absence in Europe and develops a stylized model where absence is part of the labor-leisure decision made by workers and the …
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This paper develops a general equilibrium model with unemployment and noncooperative wage determination to analyze the … calibrated to the U.S. shows that market incompleteness affects individual behavior and aggregate conditions: it reduces wages … and unemployment but increases vacancies. Additionally, the model explains the average level of unemployment insurance …
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protection and benefits between regular and nonregular workers could help put Japan's wages on an upward trajectory in the medium …Over the past decade, productivity-adjusted wages have grown at a slower pace in Japan than in other rich countries …
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The main focus of the “wage bargaining” literature has been on the factors promoting real wage flexibility at the macro level. This paper, in contrast, examines the microeconomic issues of wage bargaining. More specifically, this paper appraises the following questions: (a) what are the...
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In flow models of the labor market, wages are determined by negotiations between workers and employers on the surplus … market flows on wage formation as an alternative to the traditional specification of wage equations in which unemployment …
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of workers, with workers remaining longer in jobs. But the restrictions also tend to induce job-specific investments. A …
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Even though institutions are created to protect workers, they may interfere with labor market functioning, raise … unemployment, and end up being circumvented by informal contracts. This paper uses Brazilian microeconomic data to show that the … institutional changes introduced by the 1988 Constitution lowered the sensitivity of real wages to changes in labor market slack and …
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This Selected Issues paper for the Russian Federation discusses existing empirical efforts to measure the determinants of cross-country financial integration. Empirical studies that have adopted the gravity-model framework have found that it is generally successful in explaining bilateral...
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