• Media type: Report; E-Book
  • Title: Shirking, Endogenous Lay-off Rates and the A-cyclicality of the Real Wage
  • Contributor: Rünstler, Gerhard [Author]
  • imprint: Vienna: Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO), 2009
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Neoklassische Synthese ; Efficiency wages ; Dynamisches Gleichgewicht ; Reallohn ; Theorie ; shirking ; Effizienzlohn ; New Keynesian models ; real wage persistence
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  • Description: The paper extends the Shapiro-Stiglitz (1987) efficiency wage model by endogenising the probability of worker displacement as a function of the change in the firm's employment. This creates counter-cyclical variation in the wage mark-up and thereby generates real wage persistence. A New Keynesian DSGE model equipped with this extension replicates the empirical facts of a very limited response of the real wage to the business cycle together with a lagged hump-shaped response of employment to output.
  • Access State: Open Access