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| Title: | | Sticky wages in search and matching models in the short and long run  |
| Authors: | | Reicher, Christopher Phillip |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Kiel Working Papers 1722 |
| Abstract: | | This paper documents the short run and long run behavior of the search and matching model with staggered Nash wage bargaining. It turns out that there is a strong tradeoff inherent in assuming that previously bargained sticky wages apply to new hires. If sticky wages apply to new hires, then the staggered Nash bargaining model can generate realistic volatility in labor input, but it predicts a strong counterfactually negative long run relationship between inflation and unemployment. This finding is robust to including a microeconomically realistic degree of indexation of wages to inflation. The lack of a negative long run relationship between trend inflation and unemployment provides indirect evidence against the proposed mechanism that high inflation systematically makes new hiring more profitable by depressing the real wages of new hires. |
| Subjects: | | Sticky wages staggered Nash bargaining trend inflation unemployment search and matching |
| JEL: | | E24 E25 J23 J31 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des IfW Kieler Arbeitspapiere, IfW
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