Cyclical Wages in a Search-and-Bargaining Model with Large Firms
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Copyright 2008
ISBN 9780226707426
DOI 10.1086/653980
This chapter presents a complete general equilibrium model with flexible wages, where the degree to which wages and productivity change when cyclical employment changes is roughly consistent with postwar US data. Firms with market power are assumed to bargain simultaneously with many employees, each of whom finds himself matched with a firm only after a process of search. When employment increases as a result of reductions in market power, the marginal product of labor falls. This fall tempers the bargaining power of workers and, thus, dampens the increase in their real wages. The procyclical movement of wages is dampened further if the posting of vacancies is subject to increasing returns.
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Copy CitationJulio J. Rotemberg, NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2006 (University of Chicago Press, 2008), chap. 2, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/nber-international-seminar-macroeconomics-2006/cyclical-wages-search-and-bargaining-model-large-firms.
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