Endogenous Separations, Wage Rigidities, and Unemployment Volatility

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Carlsson, Mikael; Westermark, Andreas
• 署名单位: Uppsala University; Sveriges Riksbank; Sveriges Riksbank
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-MACROECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7707
• DOI: 10.1257/mac.20180314
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 332-354
• 关键词: equilibrium unemployment; cyclical behavior; job destruction; fluctuations; prices

摘要

We show that in microdata , as well as in a search and matching model with flexible wages for new hires , wage rigidities of incumbent workers have substantial effects on separations and unemployment volatility. Allowing for an empirically relevant degree of wage rigidities for incumbent workers drives unemployment volatility as well as the volatility of vacancies and tightness to that in the data. Thus , the degree of wage rigidity for newly hired workers is not a sufficient statistic for determining the effect of wage rigidities on macroeconomic outcomes. This finding affects the interpretation of a large empirical literature on wage rigidities.