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The Macroeconomics of Wage Rigidity and Job Separations

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  • Andrés Blanco
  • Andrés Drenik
  • Christian Moser
  • Emilio Zaratiegui

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We study the macroeconomic implications of wage-rigidity-induced job separations in an equilibrium labor market model with four features: worker productivity shocks, staggered wage contracts, search frictions, and two-sided lack of commitment. Endogenous quits and layoffs are unilaterally initiated whenever a worker’s wage-to-productivity ratio or markdown moves outside an inaction region. We derive sufficient statistics for the labor market response to inflationary shocks based on the distribution of markdowns, which we show how to identify using microdata on wage changes and worker flows between jobs. Using an extension of the model for quantitative analysis, we find that aggregate shocks generate significant cyclicality in endogenous job separations, including 62 percent of the empirical quit volatility and 94 percent of the empirical layoff volatility.

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  • Andrés Blanco & Andrés Drenik & Christian Moser & Emilio Zaratiegui, 2026. "The Macroeconomics of Wage Rigidity and Job Separations," CESifo Working Paper Series 12671, CESifo.
    • Handle: RePEc:ces:ceswps:_12671
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    • E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
    • E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
    • J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search

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