Survey evidence on wage rigidity and unemployment : Sweden in the 1990s
Survey evidence on wage rigidity and unemployment : Sweden in the 1990s
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关于工资刚性和失业的调查证据：20 世纪 90 年代的瑞典
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2003
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P. Lundborg
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作者：
J. Agell;P. Lundborg
这项研究报告的结果，从重复调查的经理在瑞典制造业，旨在探讨如何严重和长期的宏观经济冲击影响工资刚性和失业。第二次调查是在1998年进行的，当时的姚显微远高于1991年第一次调查时的姚显微，而通胀率则远低于1991年第一次调查时的姚显微。我们没有发现任何证据表明，失业率的上升软化了工资刚性的形成机制。相反，我们的结论是--由于名义工资的严重下行刚性--在瑞典转向低通胀环境的过程中，真实的工资变得更加刚性。我们还报告了一系列关于出价过低、效率工资机制、工作保障立法、工人工资规范以及长期失业者在多大程度上受到统计歧视的新证据。
This study reports the results from a repeat survey among managers in Swedish manufacturing, designed to explore how a severe and prolonged macroeconomic shock affects wage rigidity and unemployment. Our second survey was conducted in 1998, when the unemployment rate was much higher, and the inflation rate much lower, than when we conducted the first survey in 1991. We find no evidence that the increase in unemployment has softened the mechanisms generating wage rigidity. On the contrary, we conclude that – because of severe downward nominal wage rigidity – real wages have become more rigid during Sweden’s move to a low-inflation environment. We also report a range of new evidence on underbidding, efficiency wage mechanisms, job security legislation, workers’ wage norms, and to what extent the long-term unemployed are subject to statistical discrimination.