-optimal equilibrium that would occur under completely flexible wages and prices; that is, the model exhibits a tradeoff between … stabilizing the output gap, price inflation, and wage inflation. The Pareto optimum is attainable only if either wages or prices …

process in the United States over the 1967-2000 period. Using compensation per hour as the measure of wages, we specify a … productivity growth, and an additional set of labor market variables. The results do not reject the hypothesis that real wages and …

the special case in which prices are sticky and wages are perfectly flexible. When the model is calibrated to exhibit an …

nominal wages. This finding contrasts with results obtained using standard sticky-wage models, which employ Walrasian labor … tolerate large fluctuations in real wages that would otherwise not be tolerated in a standard model with Walrasian labor … markets; as a result, any concern for stabilizing nominal wages does not translate into a concern for stabilizing nominal …