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- Title
The Cost of Wage Rigidity.
- Authors
Faia, Ester; Pezone, Vincenzo
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
WAGES; EARNINGS announcements; REAL wages; PRICES; COLLECTIVE labor agreements
- Publication
Review of Economic Studies, 2024, Vol 91, Issue 1, p301
- ISSN
0034-6527
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/restud/rdad020