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Several authors have proposed staggered wage bargaining as a way to introduce sticky wages into search and matching … wages, the sticky wage model unconditionally does a better job at matching wages than the flexible wage model. -- Sticky …
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nominal shocks? One possible propagation mechanism may arise from the fact that nominal price and wage decisions are not …. Models with staggered price or wage setting captures neatly the basic implications of non-synchronised decision making …
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I propose a new search-and-matching model in which wage rigidity and volatile unemployment endogenously arise. The … responsive to productivity fluctuations by increasing procyclicality of the firm's outside option value in wage negotiations …
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This paper presents evidence that real wage cyclicality can be a particularly heterogeneous parameter, depending on …
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We extend the canonical income process with persistent and transitory risk to shock distributions with left-skewness and excess kurtosis, to which we refer as higherorder risk. We estimate our extended income process by GMM for household data from the United States. We find countercyclical...
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We extend the canonical income process with persistent and transitory risk to shock distributions with left-skewness and excess kurtosis, to which we refer as higher-order risk. We estimate our extended income process by GMM for household data from the United States. We find countercyclical...
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Built upon data from 11 subsequent waves of yearly wage surveys carried out by the National Labour Center in Hungary …
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, the government faces recruitment problems. The optimal steady-state wage premium depends mainly on the labour market … the optimal policy can increase the volatility of unemployment significantly. Public sector wage and employment shocks … have mixed effects on unemployment. A wage shock raises the unemployment rate, while a reduction in the separations lowers …
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, the government faces recruitment problems. The optimal steady-state wage premium depends mainly on the labour market … the optimal policy can increase the volatility of unemployment significantly. Public sector wage and employment shocks … have mixed effects on unemployment. A wage shock raises the unemployment rate, while a reduction in the separations lowers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135824
Using detailed IRS administrative data on millions of households, we find that households effectively insure against much of the risk facing primary earners. We show that households face less risk than males alone, and households face roughly half the countercyclical risk increase. As a result...
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