The Inflation of Resetting Workers

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contents The standard wage Phillips curve aggregates away from which workers reset wages when. I show this aggregation omits a first-order term: the covariance between workers' cost-push exposure and their reset frequency. I introduce two sufficient statistics and embed them in a multi-country HANK model calibrated to six euro-area economies. The omitted term generates 7 percent more cumulative core inflation in the baseline and 10--26 percent more when monetary policy is delayed. Two economies with identical openness can differ by 6.6 percentage-point-quarters solely from within-country composition. Targeted essentials subsidies reduce welfare loss by 32 percent relative to aggressive tightening. Out of sample, the model correctly predicts the persistence ranking across the UK, the US, and Japan.
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spellingShingle The Inflation of Resetting Workers
Sun, Rui
General Economics
Economics
The standard wage Phillips curve aggregates away from which workers reset wages when. I show this aggregation omits a first-order term: the covariance between workers' cost-push exposure and their reset frequency. I introduce two sufficient statistics and embed them in a multi-country HANK model calibrated to six euro-area economies. The omitted term generates 7 percent more cumulative core inflation in the baseline and 10--26 percent more when monetary policy is delayed. Two economies with identical openness can differ by 6.6 percentage-point-quarters solely from within-country composition. Targeted essentials subsidies reduce welfare loss by 32 percent relative to aggressive tightening. Out of sample, the model correctly predicts the persistence ranking across the UK, the US, and Japan.
title The Inflation of Resetting Workers
topic General Economics
Economics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.29154