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Title: Real wages and business cycle asymmetries
Keywords: E32
C32
ddc:330
threshold vector autoregressive model
real wages
business cycle
Reallohn
Konjunktur
VAR-Modell
Schätzung
Vergleich
Vereinigte Staaten
Deutschland
Issue Date: 16-Oct-2013
Publisher: 
Description: The cyclicality of real wages has important implications for the validity of competing business cycle theories. However, the empirical evidence on the aggregate level is inconclusive. Using a threshold vector autoregressive model for the US and Germany to condition the relationship between real wages and business fluctuations on the phase of the cycle, it is demonstrated that the inconclusive evidence is not only caused by measurement problems, estimation method and composition bias as discussed in the literature. In addition, one should also consider whether the economy is in an upswing or a downswing. In general, the evidence for countercyclical wages is stronger in Germany than for the US, but taken together there is no clear systematic pattern.
URI: http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18845
Other Identifiers: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18845
ppn:389732613
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