present labor market conditions. Furthermore, we revisit recent findings of greater wage cyclicality of new hires. Overall, we … cyclical than those of existing workers. We argue that much of the excess wage cyclicality of new hires discussed by the …

) and an on-the-job search model (Hagedorn and Manovskii, 2013) for the wage formation of different worker types over the …), we find that previous evidence for the excess wage cyclicality of job changers can be entirely explained by cyclical …-employee matches, we also find no excess wage cyclicality for new hires from unemployment - the key worker type's wage for …

occupation switchers are highly cyclical. We uncover higher wage cyclicality also among workers who switch occupations within the … same firm. Moreover, wage cyclicality increases, the more different current and previous occupations' required skills. Our … quality in worker's occupation, rather than wage flexibility. …

In employment relationships, a wage is an installment payment on an implicit long-term agreement between a worker and a … firm. The price of labor that impacts firm's hiring decisions, instead, reflects the hiring wage as well as the impact of … substantially more pro-cyclical than the new-hire wage or the average wage. The strong procyclicality of the price of labor calls …

employment matches. To address both concerns, we estimate cyclicality in labor's user cost exploiting the long-run wage in a … recession affects user cost: It lowers the new-hire wage; it lowers wages going forward in the match; but it also results in …

such a mechanism can quantitatively account for the degree of real wage rigidity in the Bulgarian labor markets, as …

We use representative payroll data from Great Britain to document novel facts about nominal wage adjustments, focusing …. Unusually, these payroll-based data also report the wage rates of hourly-paid employees. A quarter of these workers typically … see no change in their wage rates from one year to the next in the same job, and very few experience wage cuts. We exploit …