The Negative Mean Output Gap /

We argue that in an economy with downward nominal wage rigidity, the output gap is negative on average. Because it is more difficult to cut wages than to increase them, firms reduce employment more during downturns than they increase employment during expansions. This is demonstrated in a simple New...

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מחבר ראשי: Aiyar, Shekhar
מחברים אחרים: Voigts, Simon
פורמט: כתב-עת
שפה:English
יצא לאור: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
סדרה:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/183
גישה מקוונת:Full text available on IMF