Reference Dependence and Labor-Market Fluctuations

Ran Spiegler () and Kfir Eliaz

No 8997, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: We incorporate reference-dependent preferences into a search-and-matching model of the labor market, in which firms have all the bargaining power and productivity follows an AR(1) process. Motivated by Akerlof (1982) and Bewley (1999), we assume that existing workers are willing to exert unobserved,

Keywords: Negative-reciprocity; Reference-dependence; Search and matching; Shimer puzzle; Social preferences; Wage rigidity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 D03 E24 E32 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-05
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