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American Economic Journal:
Macroeconomics

ISSN 1945-7707 (Print) | ISSN 1945-7715 (Online)

Sticky Wages: Evidence from Quarterly Microeconomic Data

  • Hervé Le Bihan
  • Jérémi Montornès
  • Thomas Heckel
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
vol. 4, no. 3, July 2012
(pp. 1–32)
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Abstract

Using an original micro-dataset from France, we investigate nominal wage stickiness. Nominal wage changes are found to occur at a quarterly frequency of around 38 percent over our sample period, and to be to a large extent staggered across establishments, and very synchronized within establishments. We carry out an econometric analysis of wage changes based on a two-threshold sample selection model. Our results are that the timing of wage adjustments is time-dependent as opposed to state-dependent, there is evidence of predetermination in wage changes, and both backward and forward-looking behavior is relevant in wage setting. (JEL E24, E52, J31)

Citation

Le Bihan, Hervé, Jérémi Montornès, and Thomas Heckel. 2012. "Sticky Wages: Evidence from Quarterly Microeconomic Data." American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 4 (3): 1–32. DOI: 10.1257/mac.4.3.1

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JEL Classification

  • E24 Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital
  • E52 Monetary Policy
  • J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
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