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 …

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 …

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 …

explanation is consistent with the data. The main insight is that the relevant wage data for the search model are not aggregate … wages and respond one-for-one to changes in labor productivity. Thus, we find no evidence for wage rigidity …

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 …

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