Journal of Labor Economics Vol. 8 No. 1, Part 1 1990
Why are Wages Cyclical in the 1970s?
Abstract
This article investigates cyclicality in real wages between 1969 and 1982, using Panel Study of Income Dynamics data. There is little evidence that movements in and out of the labor market induced aggregate wage cyclicality during these years. However, cyclicality in the movement of workers between heterogeneous labor-market sectors affected aggregate wage cyclicality. While sector location is important, sector selectivity is not correlated with wages. Yet, even within sectors, cyclicality is present in real wages over this time period and is the result of cyclicality in overall wage levels, as well as in the coefficients associated with particular worker characteristics.
- DOI
- 10.1086/298235
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 1, Part 1
- Pages
- 16-47
- Language
- en
- Sources
- openalex crossref