wages. A one-point increase in the unemployment rate decreases wages of newly hired male workers by around 2.8% and by just …

Most economists maintain that the labor market in the United States is 'tight' because unemployment rates are low. They …, prior to that, real wages had been stagnant for some time. We show that unemployment is not key to understanding wage …

severe and prolonged macroeconomic shock affects wage rigidity and unemployment. Our second survey was conducted in 1998 …, when the unemployment rate was much higher, and the inflation rate much lower, than when we conducted the first survey in … 1991. We find no evidence that the increase in unemployment has softened the mechanisms generating wage rigidity. On the …

severe and prolonged macroeconomic shock affects wage rigidity and unemployment. Our second survey was conducted in 1998 …, when the unemployment rate was much higher, and the inflation rate much lower, than when we conducted the first survey in … 1991. We find no evidence that the increase in unemployment has softened the mechanisms generating wage rigidity. On the …

severe and prolonged macroeconomic shock affects wage rigidity and unemployment. Our second survey was conducted in 1998 …, when the unemployment rate was much higher, and the inflation rate much lower, than when we conducted the first survey in … 1991. We find no evidence that the increase in unemployment has softened the mechanisms generating wage rigidity. On the …

impacts from optimal unemployment insurance policy. The model is estimated on the NLSY using the method of moments …

Empirically, unemployment is highly volatile while inflation displays inertia, even though marginal cost is pro … unemployment in the Great Recession. Moreover, inflation inertia is made consistent with pro-cyclical marginal cost since the …

unionized sector creates unemployment whenever the union wage exceeds the competitive wage. Government intervention can increase … both the equilibrium amount of unemployment and worsen the intersectoral allocation of labour, because of the induced … change in the endogenous wage. Unemployment weakens but does not eliminate the possibility of a "labour-management conspiracy." …