Working Paper
Evaluating the performance of the search and matching model with sticky wages
Several authors have proposed staggered wage bargaining as a way to introduce sticky wages into search and matching models while preserving individual rationality. I evaluate the quantitative implications of such an approach. I feed through a series of estimated shocks from US data into a search and matching model with sticky prices and wages. I compare the implications of how the sticky wages enter into the hiring decision, and there seems to be a tradeoff between generating business cycle volatility and matching the lack of a long-run relationship between vacancy creation and inflation. With regard to wages, the sticky wage model unconditionally does a better job at matching wages than the flexible wage model.
Key Words
- Business cycles
- Inflation
- Konjunkturzyklen
- Löhne
- new hires
- search and matching
- staggered Nash bargaining
- sticky prices
- Wages