@techreport{NBERw11050,
 title = "Financial Markets and Wages",
 author = "Claudio Michelacci and Vincenzo Quadrini",
 institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research",
 type = "Working Paper",
 series = "Working Paper Series",
 number = "11050",
 year = "2005",
 month = "January",
 URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w11050",
 abstract = {We study a labor market equilibrium model in which firms sign optimal long-term contracts with workers. Firms that are financially constrained offer an increasing wage profile: They pay lower wages today in exchange of higher wages once they become unconstrained and operate at a larger scale. In equilibrium, constrained firms are on average smaller and pay lower wages. In this way the model generates a positive relation between firm size and wages. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) we show that the key dynamic properties of the model are supported by the data.},
}