USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications
Money and efficiency wages: The neglected effect of employment on efficiency.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2005
ISSN
1053-5357
Abstract
The real effects of monetary shocks cannot be explained using current efficiency wage models. In these models, wage rigidities can cause money to have real effects, but not plausible real effects. This paper uses published empirical results to show that in a general efficiency wage model, monetary shocks have perverse effects, such as countercyclical employment. Empirically, the negative impact of employment on efficiency is so strong that output falls when monetary shocks cause employment to rise. Employment and output rise together only if real wages rise a greater proportion than either. Alternative models, involving worker perceptions of fairness, are suggested.
Publisher
Elsevier
Recommended Citation
Carter, T. J. (2005). Money and efficiency wages: The neglected effect of employment on efficiency. Journal of Socio-Economics, 34(2), 199-209. doi:10.1016/j.socec.2004.09.007
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Comments
Citation only. Full-text article is available through licensed access provided by the publisher. Members of the USF System may access the full-text of the article through the authenticated link provided.