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Review of Economic Studies Vol. 54 No. 3 1987

Search, Wage Bargains and Cycles

Christopher A. Pissarides

London School of Economics and Political Science

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Abstract

The author uses an equilibrium model of job matchings with a Nash wage equation to derive the response of wages and unemployment to productivity shock. By endogenizing labor's threat point, he shows that wages absorb fully permanent shocks but only partially temporary shocks. Hence, unemployment responds to perceived temporary shocks but not to permanent shocks.

DOI
10.2307/2297570
Volume
54
Issue
3
Pages
473
Sources
bibtex:phds-export.bib crossref openalex

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