wages are rigid. We explore whether this explanation is consistent with the data. We show that the wage of newly hired … workers, unlike the aggregate wage, is volatile and responds one-to-one to changes in labor productivity. In order to … jobs. This form of wage rigidity does not affect job creation and thus cannot explain the unemployment volatility puzzle. …

wages are rigid. We explore whether this explanation is consistent with the data. We show that the wage of newly hired … workers, unlike the aggregate wage, is volatile and responds one-to-one to changes in labor productivity. In order to … jobs. This form of wage rigidity does not affect job creation and thus cannot explain the unemployment volatility puzzle …

: workplace skill segregation, gradual promotions, wage increases that have no relation with productivity and downward wage … considered in their theoretical and empirical models. -- envy ; interdependent preferences ; skill segregation ; wage dynamics … ; wage dispersion ; internal labor market ; recursive contracts …

cycles ; labour market fluctuations ; search and matching ; wage bargaining …

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … (with rather stable wage inequality) have led to a popular view in the economics profession that these two phenomena are …