Real Wages and the Business Cycle: Accounting for Worker and Firm Heterogeneity
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- Anabela Carneiro & Paulo Guimaraes & Pedro Portugal, 2009. "Real Wages and the Business Cycle: Accounting for Worker and Firm Heterogeneity," CEF.UP Working Papers 0903, Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Economia do Porto.
- Paulo Guimarães & Pedro Portugal & Anabela Carneiro, 2009. "Real Wages and the Business Cycle: Accounting for Worker and Firm Heterogeneity," Working Papers w200910, Banco de Portugal, Economics and Research Department.
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Keywords
labor productivity; compositional effects; firm-specific effects; hires; wage cyclicality;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
- E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2009-06-03 (Business Economics)
- NEP-DGE-2009-06-03 (Dynamic General Equilibrium)
- NEP-LAB-2009-06-03 (Labour Economics)
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