Bargaining, Aggregate Demand and Employment

Matthieu Charpe and Stefan Kühn

No 13, Dynare Working Papers from CEPREMAP

Abstract: This paper depicts the negative impact of a falling real wage caused by reduced bargaining power of workers on aggregate demand and employment. Contrary to standard New Keynesian models, the presence of consumers not participating in financial markets (rule of thumb consumers) causes an immediate negative response of output and employment, which is amplified when the economy faces a lower bound on the nominal interest rate. Additionally, the paper shows that by supporting consumption demand, minimum wages might enhance output and employment.

Keywords: real wage; search and matching; aggregate demand; household heterogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E21 E24 E32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2012-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dge and nep-mac
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