Price, Wage and Employment Response to Shocks: Evidence from the Wdn Survey

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Giuseppe Bertola

University of Turin - Department of Economics

Aurelijus Dabušinskas

Bank of Estonia

Marco Hoeberichts

De Nederlandsche Bank - Research Department

Mario Izquierdo

Banco de España

Claudia Kwapil

Oesterreichische Nationalbank

Jeremi Montornes

Banque de France

Daniel Radowski

Deutsche Bundesbank

Date Written: 2010

Abstract

This paper analyses information from survey data collected in the framework of the Eurosystem's Wage Dynamics Network (WDN) on patterns of firm-level adjustment to shocks. We document that the relative intensity and the character of price vs. cost and wage vs. employment adjustments in response to cost-push shocks depend - in theoretically sensible ways - on the intensity of competition in firms' product markets, on the importance of collective wage bargaining and on other structural and institutional features of firms and of their environment. Focusing on the passthrough of cost shocks to prices, our results suggest that the pass-through is lower in highly competitive firms. Furthermore, a high degree of employment protection and collective wage agreements tend to make this pass-through stronger.

Keywords: Wage bargaining, labour-market institutions, survey data, European Union

JEL Classification: J31, J38, P50

Suggested Citation

Bertola, Giuseppe and Dabušinskas, Aurelijus and Hoeberichts, Marco M. and Izquierdo, Mario and Kwapil, Claudia and Montornes, Jeremi and Radowski, Daniel, Price, Wage and Employment Response to Shocks: Evidence from the Wdn Survey (2010). Bundesbank Series 1 Discussion Paper No. 2010,02, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2785366 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2785366

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