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Author:Wilson, Beth Anne 

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Movements of wages over the business cycle: an intra-firm view

This paper tests the hypothesis that firms adjust to the business cycle by altering employment through promotion and hiring and holding the salary structure and salaries assigned to jobs relatively constant. Two comprehensive firm-level panel datasets are used to examine salary setting and worker movement within firms. The salary structure is found to be rigid whereas promotion rates are cyclically sensitive. In contrast to the hypothesis, wage cyclicality in these two firms is driven by changes in salaries associated with jobs rather than by worker movement. An additional finding is that ...
Finance and Economics Discussion Series , Paper 1997-1

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Recent U.S. macroeconomic stability: good policies, good practices or good luck?

The volatility of U.S. real GDP growth since 1984 has been markedly lower than that over the previous quarter-century. In this paper, we utilize frequency-domain and VAR methods to distinguish among several competing explanations for this phenomenon: improvements in monetary policy, better business practices, and a fortuitous reduction in exogenous disturbances. We find that reduced innovation variances account for much of the decline in aggregate output volatility. Our results support the "good-luck" hypothesis as the leading explanation for the decline in aggregate output volatility, ...
International Finance Discussion Papers , Paper 730

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Wage rigidity: a look inside the firm

This paper tests for nominal salary rigidity using panel data from two large service-sector firms. Distributions of the firms' salary changes exhibit nominal rigidity: few nominal pay cuts, a pile-up of observations at zero, and positive skewness and asymmetry. In addition, these characteristics become more pronounced in periods of low inflation. These results are much stronger than those found in the previous literature. Further analysis shows that the sizable measurement error in the PSID and the fact that establishment surveys typically follow average wages within jobs may bias the results ...
Finance and Economics Discussion Series , Paper 1999-22

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Potential Output and Recessions: Are We Fooling Ourselves?

The economic collapse in the wake of the global financial crises (GFC) and the weaker-than-expected recovery in many countries have led to questions about the impact of severe downturns on economic potential.
IFDP Notes , Paper 2014-11-12

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Recoveries and Trade : Does the Exchange Rate Regime Matter?

This note examines the connection between a country's exchange rate regime and the strength of its recovery from recessions.
IFDP Notes , Paper 2017-06-29

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The SNB-FRB-BIS High-Level Conference on Inflation Risk and Uncertainty

Uncertainty about inflation has risen considerably across the globe since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Lack of clarity about how far inflation might fall during the depths of the pandemic gave way to concerns about inflationary pressures as demand surged and supply was constrained throughout 2021.
FEDS Notes , Paper 2023-01-03

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