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Peut-on mettre en évidence des rigidités à la baisse des salaires nominaux? Une étude sur quelques grands pays de l'OCDE

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[fre] Peut-on mettre en évidence des rigidités à la baisse des salaires nominaux ? Une étude sur quelques grands pays de l'OCDE. . Dans cet article, on étudie la portée sur données macroéconomiques de l'hypothèse de rigidité à la baisse des salaires nominaux, pour quelques-uns des grands pays de l'OCDE. Un test est rendu possible par la construction d'un modèle simple emboîtant les cas de présence et d'absence de rigidités. On trouve ainsi que la rigidité n'a pas aux États-Unis d'effet perceptible dans les données macroéconomiques, alors que son impact ressort significativement pour certains pays européens. La baisse de l'inflation des dernières années aurait alors contribué à la montée du NAIRU dans ces pays, la flexibilisation du marché du travail ayant été insuffisante pour compenser la rigidité à la baisse des salaires nominaux. [eng] Is there evidence of a downward rigidity of wages in several major OECD countries?. . This paper assesses the hypothesis of wages downward rigidity on macroeconomic data for several major OECD countries against the hypothesis of flexibility. The two rigidity and no rigidity hypotheses are nested in a simple Phillips curve model to implement a Lagrange multiplier test. In opposition to the case of the US, where data are consistent with the no-rigidity hypothesis, the rigidity hypothesis is significantly accepted in some European countries. In this circumstance, the very low rates of inflation reached by European countries would have contributed to the rise in the NAIRU observed in these countries as the labor market has not been flexible enough to reduce the impact of this downward rigidity.

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  • Xavier Bonnet, 1999. "Peut-on mettre en évidence des rigidités à la baisse des salaires nominaux? Une étude sur quelques grands pays de l'OCDE," Revue Économique, Programme National Persée, vol. 50(3), pages 557-570.
  • Handle: RePEc:prs:reveco:reco_0035-2764_1999_num_50_3_410100
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