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Wage Flexibility and Openness

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This paper analyzes the degree of short-run, real wage flexibility in a two-sector economy under floating rates. This is done by deriving optimal wage indexation in a contracting framework. We find that the more closed the economy, the lower the degree of wage indexation. As a result, output will fluctuate less around its desired level in a more closed economy. These findings further imply that a given unexpected monetary shock will cause as maller output shock in a more open economy, whereas a given real shock will induce a smaller output shock in a more closed economy.
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  • Joshua Aizenman, 1985. "Wage Flexibility and Openness," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 100(2), pages 539-550.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:qjecon:v:100:y:1985:i:2:p:539-550.
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