Bils, Mark; Kudlyak, Marianna; Lins, Paulo - 2023
in the presence of (i) cyclical fluctuations in the quality of worker-firm matches, or (ii) wages being smoothed within …Typical measures of wages, such as average hourly earnings, fail to capture cyclicality in the effective cost of labor … employment matches. To address both concerns, we estimate cyclicality in labor's user cost exploiting the long-run wage in a …