Author: Ernst FehrPublisher:
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Category : Unemployment
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The Robustness and Real Consequences of Nominal Wage Rigidity
Author: Ernst FehrPublisher:
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Category : Unemployment
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Robustness and Real Consequences of Nominal Wage Rigidity
Author: Ernst FehrThe Extent and Consequences of Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity
Author: Joseph G. AltonjiPublisher:
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Category : Inflation (Finance)
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we find that true wage changes have many fewer nominal cuts and more nominal freezes than reported nominal wage changes. The data overwhelmingly rejects a model of flexible wage changes and provides some evidence against a model of perfect downward rigidity in favor of a more general model. The more general model incorporates downward rigidity but specifies that nominal wage cuts may occur when large cuts would occur in the absence of wage rigidity. However, the results of the general model imply that nominal wage cuts are rare. We also analyze the personnel files of a large corporation and find cuts in base pay are rare and almost always associated with changes in full time status or a switch between compensation schemes involving incentives. Our evidence on the consequences of nominal wage rigidity is mixed. We find modest support for the hypothesis that workers who are overpaid because of nominal wage rigidity are less likely to quit.
How Rigid are Nominal Wages?
Author: Christoph KnoppikEvaluating the Economic Significance of Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity
Author: Michael W. L. ElsbyPublisher:
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Category : Wages
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
This paper formalizes and assesses empirically the implications of widely observed evidence for downward nominal wage rigidity (DNWR). It shows how a model of DNWR informed by diverse evidence for worker resistance to nominal wage cuts is nevertheless consistent with weak macroeconomic effects. This occurs because firms have an incentive to compress wage increases as well as wage cuts when DNWR binds. By neglecting potential compression of wage increases, the previous literature may have overstated the costs of DNWR to firms. Using a broad range of micro--data from the US and Great Britain I find that firms do indeed compress wage increases as well as wage cuts at times when DNWR binds. Accounting for this reduces the estimated increase in aggregate wage growth due to DNWR to be much closer to zero, consistent with the predictions of the model. These results suggest that DNWR may not provide a strong argument against the targeting of low inflation rates, as practiced by many monetary authorities. Importantly, though, this result is nevertheless consistent with evidence that suggests workers are averse to nominal wage cuts.
Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity
Author: David E. LebowPublisher:
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Category : Inflation (Finance)
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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The Costs of Price Stability - Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity in Europe
Author: Steinar HoldenPublisher:
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
In most European countries, the prevailing terms of employment, including the nominal wage, can only be changed by mutual consent. I show that this feature implies that workers have a strategic advantage in the wage negotiations when they try to prevent a cut in nominal wages. If inflation is so low that some nominal wages have to be cut, the strategic advantage of the workers' induces higher unemployment in equilibrium. The upshot is a long run tradeoff between inflation and unemployment for low levels of inflation. The prediction that low inflation involves higher unemployment in Europe but not in the US, is consistent with previous empirical findings.
Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity in the United States During and After the Great Recession
Author: Bruce C. FallickDownward Nominal Wage Rigidity in the United States
Author: André KurmannDownward nominal and real wage rigidity : survey evidence from European firms
Author: Jan BabeckyPublisher:
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Category : Banks and banking, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Abstract: It has been well established that the wages of individual workers react little, especially downwards, to shocks that hit their employer. This paper presents new evidence from a unique survey of firms across Europe on the prevalence of downward wage rigidity in both real and nominal terms. The authors analyse which firm-level and institutional factors are associated with wage rigidity. The results indicate that it is related to workforce composition at the establishment level in a manner that is consistent with related theoretical models (e.g. efficiency wage theory, insider-outsider theory). The analysis also finds that wage rigidity depends on the labour market institutional environment. Collective bargaining coverage is positively related with downward real wage rigidity, measured on the basis of wage indexation. Downward nominal wage rigidity is positively associated with the extent of permanent contracts and this effect is stronger in countries with stricter employment protection regulations.