The Cost of Wage Rigidity

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Faia, Ester; Pezone, Vincenzo
• 署名单位: Goethe University Frankfurt; Tilburg University
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6527
• DOI: 10.1093/restud/rdad020
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 301-339
• 关键词: monetary-policy; federal-reserve; staggered wage; sticky prices; menu costs; INEQUALITY; EMPLOYMENT; CONTRACTS; rise

摘要

Private efficiency of wage rigidity has taken centre stage in economics. Measuring its effects has proven elusive for lack of actual wage data. Using a unique confidential labour contract-level dataset matched with firm-level high-frequency asset prices, we find robust evidence that firms' stock prices and employment fluctuate more in response to monetary policy announcements, the higher the degree of wage rigidity. Hand-collected information on the periods across renegotiations of collective bargaining agreements allow us to construct an accurate and predetermined measure of wage rigidity. We find that the amplification induced by wage rigidity is stronger for firms with high labour intensity, low profitability, and a large share of workers with more rigid contracts.