Staggered Bargaining and Hours Worked

Samuel Danthine and Stéphane Auray

No 301, 2004 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics

Abstract: A matching model with labor/leisure choice and staggered bargaining is used to explain (i)differences in GDP per hour and GDP per capita, (ii) differences in employment, (iii) differences in the proportion of part-time work across countries. The model predicts that the higher the level of rigidity in wages and hours the lower are GDP per capita, employment, part-time work and hours worked, but the higher is GDP per hours worked. In addition, it predicts that a country with a high level of rigidity in wages and hours and a high level of income taxation has higher GDP per hour and lower GDP per capita than a country with less rigidity and a lower level of taxation. This is due mostly to a lower level of employment, and not to a higher degree of part-time work. In contrast, a country with low levels of rigidity in hour and in wage setting but with a higher level of income taxation has a lower GDP per capita and a higher GDP per hour than the economy with low rigidity and low taxation, because of less employment but also because of a higher level of part-time work

Keywords: matching; search; hours; staggered bargaining; labor market performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 J63 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2004

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