Fiscal Consolidation and Public Wages

A New Keynesian model with government production, public compensation, and unemployment is fit to U.S. data to study the effects of public wage reductions. Estimation implies reductions in public wages and government goods purchases have similar effects on total output, and the fiscal balance, yet t...

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Published inJournal of money, credit and banking Vol. 53; no. 2-3; pp. 503 - 533
Main Authors CHANG, JUIN‐JEN, LIN, HSIEH‐YU, TRAUM, NORA, YANG, SHU‐CHUN S.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Columbus Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.03.2021
Ohio State University Press
Subjects
Analysis
Bayesian estimation
Compensation
fiscal consolidation
Fiscal policy
government spending
Keynesian theory
Local government
New Keynesian model
Private sector
public wage
state and local governments
Unemployment
Wages
Wages & salaries
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Summary:A New Keynesian model with government production, public compensation, and unemployment is fit to U.S. data to study the effects of public wage reductions. Estimation implies reductions in public wages and government goods purchases have similar effects on total output, and the fiscal balance, yet the former can raise private output slightly, while the latter does not. Exogenous public wage reductions decrease private wages. Model counterfactuals show that sufficiently rigid nominal private wages can reverse the private wage response, as the rigidity dampens the labor reallocation effect from the public to private sector that exerts downward pressure on private wages.
ISSN:0022-2879
1538-4616
DOI:10.1111/jmcb.12775