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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المؤلف الرئيسي: Aiyar, Shekhar
مؤلفون آخرون: Voigts, Simon
التنسيق: دورية
اللغة:English
منشور في: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
سلاسل:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/183
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Full text available on IMF

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