Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/240709 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
Working Papers No. 2020-20
Publisher: 
Banco de México, Ciudad de México
Abstract: 
The frequencies at which prices and wages are adjusted, interpreted as price and wage flexibility, are key elements in workhorse models used for policy analysis. Yet, there is little evidence regarding the relationship between these two sources of nominal rigidities. Using two large and highly disaggregated price and wage microdata sets, this paper provides evidence that the industries changing more frequently wages reset prices more often. Once the frequency of wage adjustments is accounted for, the share of labor costs becomes less relevant in explaining the frequency of price changes, calling for a reinterpretation on previous findings that the labor share is a robust determinant of the frequency of price adjustments. The results in this study have implications for New Keynesian models' microfoundations, as their predictions have proven to be sensitive to the nominal rigidities assumptions.
Subjects: 
Nominal Stickiness
Micro Price Data
Micro Wage Data
Frequency of Adjustments
JEL: 
E31
J31
C26
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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