Arbeitspapier
Does wage rigidity really exist? New evidence from US panel data
Downward nominal wage rigidity (DNWR) could prevent real wage adjustments in times of low inflation rates. Nominal wage rigidity based on annual wages can at least be reduced, if the number of working hours is considered. This leads to a lower degree of DNWR in hourly wage changes. In this paper, we use a histogram-location approach to investigate to what extent annual as well as hourly wages are subject to downward nominal wage rigidity. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) we find that annual wage changes exhibit a substantially higher level of wage rigidity than hourly wage changes which also holds for males compared to females.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CAWM Discussion Paper ; No. 13
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Wirtschaft
Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- Subject
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Wage Rigidity
Histogram-Location Approach
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Geistige Schöpfung
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von Blanckenburg, Korbinian
Geist, Alexander
Schmidt, Jörg
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Veröffentlichung
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Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Centrum für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (CAWM)
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Münster
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2009
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- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- von Blanckenburg, Korbinian
- Geist, Alexander
- Schmidt, Jörg
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Centrum für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (CAWM)
Time of origin
- 2009