Monetary Policy, Labor Income Redistribution and the Credit Channel: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee and Credit Registers

Caterina Mendicino, Ettore Panetti, Dominik Supera, Martina Jašová and José-Luis Peydró
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Jose-Luis Peydro

No 1338, Working Papers from Barcelona School of Economics

Abstract: We document the heterogeneous effects of monetary policy on labor market outcomes via credit channel. Using employee-employer and credit registers in Portugal, we show that falling rates increase wages, hours worked and employment more in financially constrained small and young firms. Consistent with the capital-skill complementarity mechanism, we document an increase in the skill premium and show that financially constrained firms increase both physical and human capital investment the most. We uncover a central role of the credit channel with stronger state-dependent effects during crises. The effects are fully driven by firms with bank credit.

Keywords: monetary policy; capital-skill complementarity; bank lending channel; labor income inequality; firm balance sheet channel (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D22 D31 E52 G01 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-04
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