Pourpourides, Panayiotis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2986-4094 2011. Implicit contracts and the cyclicality of the skill-premium. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 35 (6) , pp. 963-979. 10.1016/j.jedc.2010.11.009 |
Abstract
To examine the cyclical behavior of the skill-premium, this paper introduces implicit labor contracts in a DSGE model where production is characterized by capital-skill complementarity and the utilization of capital is endogenous. It is shown that this model can reproduce the observed cyclical patterns of wages and the skill-premium. The feature of capital-skill complementarity coupled with variable capital utilization rates does not come at odds with the acyclical behavior of the skill-premium. The paper argues that the skill-complementarity of capital is not a quantitatively significant factor at high frequencies. The key aspects are the contracts and the capital utilization margin.
Item Type: | Article |
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Date Type: | Publication |
Status: | Published |
Schools: | Business (Including Economics) |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HG Finance |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | implicit contracts; wages; skill-premium; business cycles; capital-skill complementarity |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
ISSN: | 0165-1889 |
Last Modified: | 18 Oct 2022 14:28 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/17618 |
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