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.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: CAWM Discussion Paper ; No. 13

Classification
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
Wage Rigidity
Histogram-Location Approach

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
von Blanckenburg, Korbinian
Geist, Alexander
Schmidt, Jörg
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Centrum für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (CAWM)
(where)
Münster
(when)
2009

Handle
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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

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