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Cyclicality of real wages in the USA and Germany: New insights from wavelet analysis
Marczak, Martyna; Gómez, Víctor - 2012
This article provides new insights into the cyclical behavior of consumer and producer real wages in the USA and … cyclical patterns over time. From the findings of our study, we can infer that the USA and Germany differ with respect to the … lead-lag relationship of real wages and the business cycle. In the USA, both real wages are leading the business cycle in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010309235
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Nominal and real wage rigidities. In theory and in Europe
Knell, Markus - 2010
In this paper I study the relation between real wage rigidity (RWR) and nominal price and wage rigidity. I show that in a standard DSGE model RWR is mainly affected by the interaction of the two nominal rigidities and not by other structural parameters. The degree of RWR is, however,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605226
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Can intangible capital explain cyclical movements in the labor wedge?
Gourio, François; Rudanko, Leena - 2014
Intangible capital is an important factor of production in modern economies that is generally neglected in business cycle analyses. We demonstrate that intangible capital can have a substantial impact on business cycle dynamics, especially if the intangible is complementary with production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352192
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Real wages over the business cycle: OECD evidence from the time and frequency domains
Messina, Julián; Strozzi, Chiara; Turunen, Jarkko - 2009
We study differences in the adjustment of aggregate real wages in the manufacturing sector over the business cycle across OECD countries, combining results from different data and dynamic methods. Summary measures of cyclicality show genuine cross-country heterogeneity even after controlling for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605049
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Real wages and business cycle asymmetries
Woitek, Ulrich - 2004
The cyclicality of real wages has important implications for the validity of competing business cycle theories. However, the empirical evidence on the aggregate level is inconclusive. Using a threshold vector autoregressive model for the US and Germany to condition the relationship between real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261205
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Real wages and the business cycles in Germany
Marczak, Martyna; Beissinger, Thomas - 2010
This paper establishes stylized facts about the cyclicality of real consumer wages and real producer wages in Germany. As detrending methods we apply the deterministic trend model, the Beveridge-Nelson decomposition, the Hodrick-Prescott filter, the Baxter-King filter and the structural time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274586
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Real wages and the business cycle in Germany
Marczak, Martyna; Beissinger, Thomas - 2010
This paper establishes stylized facts about the cyclicality of real consumer wages and real producer wages in Germany. As detrending methods we apply the deterministic trend model, the Beveridge-Nelson decomposition, the Hodrick-Prescott filter, the Baxter-King filter and the structural time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302616
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Real wages over the business cycle: OECD evidence from the time and frequency domains
Messina, Julián; Strozzi, Chiara; Turunen, Jarkko - 2008
We study differences in the adjustment of aggregate real wages in the manufacturing sector over the business cycle across OECD countries, combining results from different data and dynamic methods. Summary measures of cyclicality show genuine cross-country heterogeneity even after controlling for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275887
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On reputation: a microfoundation of contract enforcement and price rigidity
Fehr, Ernst; Brown, Martin; Zehnder, Christian - 2008
We study the impact of reputational incentives in markets characterized by moral hazard problems. Social preferences have been shown to enhance contract enforcement in these markets, while at the same time generating considerable wage and price rigidity. Reputation powerfully amplifies the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268857
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Labor market institutions and the business cycle Unemployment rigidities vs. real wage rigidities
Abbritti, Mirko; Weber, Sebastian - 2010
This paper investigates the importance of labor market institutions for inflation and unemployment dynamics. Using the New Keynesian framework we argue that labor market institutions should be divided into those institutions that cause Unemployment Rigidities (UR) and those that cause Real Wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605229