Does wage compression explain rigid money wages?

Gylfi Zoega; Thorlakur Karlsson

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2006.03.043

Does wage compression explain rigid money wages?

Gylfi Zoega^*, Thorlakur Karlsson

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Abstract

We use a survey of CEOs to show that the causes of wage rigidity and the causes of wage compression within firms are interlinked in that the proposed explanations for the latter also provide an explanation for the former.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	111-115
Number of pages	5
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	93
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2006.03.043
Publication status	Published - Oct 2006

Other keywords

Wage compression
Wage rigidity

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