Implicit contracts and the cyclicality of the skill-premium

Pourpourides, Panayiotis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2986-4094 2010. Implicit contracts and the cyclicality of the skill-premium. [Working Paper]. Cardiff Economics Working Papers, Cardiff: Cardiff University.

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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:	Monograph (Working Paper)
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
Publisher:	Cardiff University
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Last Modified:	28 Oct 2022 10:18
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/77768

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