Haefke, Christian; Sonntag, Marcus; Rens, Thijs van - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2007
Recent research in macroeconomics emphasizes the role of wage rigidity in accounting for the volatility of unemployment … aggregate labor market conditions. The wage of new hires, unlike the aggregate wage, is volatile and responds almost one …-to-one to changes in labor productivity. We conclude that there is little evidence for wage stickiness in the data. We also show …