Conference Paper
Unemployment fluctuations with staggered Nash wage bargaining
Abstract: A number of authors have recently emphasized that the conventional model of unemployment dynamics due to Mortensen and Pissarides has difficulty accounting for the relatively volatile behavior of labor market activity over the business cycle. We address this issue by modifying the MP framework to allow for staggered multiperiod wage contracting. What emerges is a tractable relation for wage dynamics that is a natural generalization of the period-by-period Nash bargaining outcome in the conventional formulation. An interesting side-product is the emergence of spillover effects of average wages on the bargaining process. We then show that a reasonable calibration of the model can account reasonably well for the cyclical behavior of wages and labor market activity observed in the data. The spillover effects turn out to be important in this respect.
Status: Published in Labor markets and the macroeconomy : a conference (2006: March 3-4)
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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Part of Series: Proceedings
Publication Date: 2006