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hence allowing for a rigorous understanding of nominal rigidity. This has led to a shift away from perfect competition in …
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The combination of discretionary monetary policy, labor-market distortions and nominal wage rigidity yields an … inflation bias as monetary policy tries to exploit nominal wage contracts to address labour-market distortions Although an … if fiscal policy is set at a higher frequency than nominal wages are. To avoid the associated excessive accumulation of …
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This paper adds two-sided ex-ante heterogeneity and a production technology inducing sorting to the canonical Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides (DMP) search and matching model. Ex-ante heterogeneity and sorting have important implications for the dynamic properties of the model. The modifications...
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International Outsourcing effects on labor markets are mostly analyzed within flexible wage settings. Using a modern duality approach, this paper formally investigates differences occurring in industries with low skilled wage rigidity and, for the first time in literature, presents empirical...
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This paper investigates the impact of a collective agreement stipulating a one shot increase in establishment-specific wage levels in a public-sector setting where wages otherwise are set according to individualized wage bargaining. The agreement stipulated that wages should increase in...
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facts as well as macro facts, provided one allows for moderate real wage stickiness and provided one allows for sufficient …
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document the very large increase in the incidence of minimum wage earners and nominal wage freezes. We explore three different …
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of legal restrictions behind downward nominal pay rigidity. Our findings also suggest a significant potential of overtime …
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