Demand shocks and the cyclical behavior of the real wage: Some international evidence



Título del documento: Demand shocks and the cyclical behavior of the real wage: Some international evidence
Revista: Journal of applied economics
Base de datos: CLASE
Número de sistema: 000399293
ISSN: 1667-6726
Autors: 1
Institucions: 1International Monetary Fund, Washington, Distrito de Columbia. Estados Unidos de América
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Període: May
Volum: 13
Número: 1
Paginació: 135-158
País: Argentina
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Aplicado
Resumen en inglés The focus of this investigation is on the cyclical response of the real wage to demand shocks. This response differentiates the empirical validity of major New Keynesian explanations of business cycles. The empirical evidence, across industrial countries, highlights a moderate positive correlation between nominal wage and price flexibility in response to various demand shocks. Nonetheless, higher price flexibility moderates the effect of demand shocks on real output, while higher nominal wage flexibility increases, or does not determine, the effects of demand shocks on real output across countries. An increase in the response of the real wage to demand shocks therefore exacerbates their real effect on output, as predicted by sticky-price models. Further, demand shocks do not determine the difference in wage variability. Nominal wage variability increases, in turn, output variability across countries. In contrast, demand shocks differentiate price variability. Price variability moderates, in turn, output variability across countries
Disciplines Economía,
Relaciones internacionales
Paraules clau: Teorías económicas,
Precios,
Econometría,
Condiciones económicas,
Relaciones económicas internacionales,
Ciclos económicos,
Precios,
Asimetría económica,
Salario real,
Crecimiento económico,
Inflación,
Salarios
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