How do wages respond to financial recessions? Based on a dynamic macroeconomic model with frictions in the labor and … and explore their effect on wages. First, the financial labor wedge reduces wages. Second, financial constraints may … interact with aggregate labor market conditions in various ways putting upward or downward pressure on wages. We test partial …

Traditional models of the labor market typically assume that wages are set by the market, not the firm. However, over … suggest that a monopsonistic model, where individual firms and not the market set wages, may be more appropriate. This model … attributes more wage-setting power to firms, particularly during economic downturns, which helps explain why wages decrease …

stock prices even though TFP does not change significantly for more than 2 years. A labor search model in which wages are …-finding rates. The proposed wage rule is consistent with empirical responses of wages to both anticipated and unanticipated …

How do wages respond to financial recessions? Based on a dynamic macroeconomic model with frictions in the labor and … and explore their effect on wages. First, the financial labor wedge reduces wages. Second, financial constraints may … interact with aggregate labor market conditions in various ways putting upward or downward pressure on wages. We test partial …

stock prices even though TFP does not change significantly for more than 2 years. A labor search model in which wages are …‐finding rates. The proposed wage rule is consistent with empirical responses of wages to both anticipated and unanticipated …

Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional … employees (entrants) receive their reservation wages. The reason given is that an increase in insider wages gives rise to a … counterveiling fall in reservation wages, leaving the present value of wage costs unchanged. Our analysis contradicts this …