Unemployment Fluctuation with Staggered Nash Wage Bargaining

Mark Gertler () and Antonella Trigari ()

No 2007/09, CFS Working Paper Series from Center for Financial Studies

Abstract: A number of authors have recently emphasized that the conventional model of unemployment dynamics due to Mortensen and Pissarides has difficulty accounting for the relatively volatile behavior of labor market activity over the business cycle. We address this issue by modifying the MP framework to allow for staggered multiperiod wage contracting. What emerges is a tractable relation for wage dynamics that is a natural generalization of the period-by-period Nash bargaining outcome in the conventional formulation. An interesting side-product is the emergence of spillover effects of average wages on the bargaining process. We then show that a reasonable calibration of the model can account well for the cyclical behavior of wages and labor market activity observed in the data. The spillover effects turn out to be important in this respect.

Keywords: Unemployment; Labor Market; Nash Bargaining; Wage Rigidity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 E50 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dge, nep-lab and nep-mac
Date: 2007-02-15
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Working Paper: Unemployment Fluctuations With Staggered Nash Wage Bargaining (2006)
Working Paper: Unemployment Fluctuations with Staggered Nash Wage Bargaining (2006)
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Journal Article: Unemployment fluctuations with staggered Nash wage bargaining (2006)
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