Wage Bargaining, Labor Turnover, and the Business Cycle: a Model with Asymmetric Information

25 Pages Posted: 4 Jul 2004 Last revised: 19 Sep 2022

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Motty Perry

Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Center for the Study of Rationality; Pennsylvania State University, College of the Liberal Arts - Department of Economic

Gary Solon

University of Arizona; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Date Written: May 1984

Abstract

This paper presents a wage bargaining model in which the employer and employee are each uncertain about the other's reservation wage. Under specified circumstances, the model's equilibrium is shown to involve unilateral wage setting and inefficient labor turnover. In addition, aggregate demand shocks affect the equilibrium in a way that produces procyclical quits and countercyclical layoffs.These results are obtained without resorting to assumptions of nominal wage rigidity, long-term contracting, or aggregate price misperceptions.

Suggested Citation

Perry, Motty and Perry, Motty and Solon, Gary, Wage Bargaining, Labor Turnover, and the Business Cycle: a Model with Asymmetric Information (May 1984). NBER Working Paper No. w1359, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=324005

Motty Perry

Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Center for the Study of Rationality ( email )

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Gary Solon (Contact Author)

University of Arizona ( email )

Department of Economics
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United States

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