economic conditions at the time of hiring on future wages. Measured by the labor's user cost, the price of labor is …

-sectional heterogeneity of establishments' average real wages over the business cycle. While the median establishments' real wages are … procyclical, there is a large fraction of establishments with countercyclical real wages. We are the first to show that … establishments with more procyclical wages have a less procyclical hires rate and employment behavior. We propose a labor market flow …