In employment relationships, a wage is an installment payment on an implicit long-term agreement between a worker and a … firm. The price of labor that impacts firm's hiring decisions, instead, reflects the hiring wage as well as the impact of … substantially more pro-cyclical than the new-hire wage or the average wage. The strong procyclicality of the price of labor calls …

wages are rigid. We explore whether this explanation is consistent with the data. We show that the wage of newly hired … workers, unlike the aggregate wage, is volatile and responds one-to-one to changes in labor productivity. In order to … jobs. This form of wage rigidity does not affect job creation and thus cannot explain the unemployment volatility puzzle …

explanation is consistent with the data. The main insight is that the relevant wage data for the search model are not aggregate … wages and respond one-for-one to changes in labor productivity. Thus, we find no evidence for wage rigidity …

wages are rigid. We explore whether this explanation is consistent with the data. We show that the wage of newly hired … workers, unlike the aggregate wage, is volatile and responds one-to-one to changes in labor productivity. In order to … jobs. This form of wage rigidity does not affect job creation and thus cannot explain the unemployment volatility puzzle …

. We show that firms were able to respond to the Great Recession with substantial real wage cuts and by recruiting more …

We introduce dynamic incentive contracts into a model of unemployment dynamics and present three results. First, wage …-order equivalent in an economy with flexible incentive pay and without bargaining, vis-a-vis an economy with rigid wages. Second, wage …% of wage cyclicality in the data arises from incentives. A standard model without incentives calibrated to weakly …

cycles ; labour market fluctuations ; search and matching ; wage bargaining …

against idiosyncratic risk. We show that this heterogeneity implies wage rigidity relative to a complete insurance economy …