“…Some, for example, choose to focus on the relative degree of nominal price and wage rigidities, where traditionally a higher degree of nominal wage rigidity, relatively to price rigidity, implies a higher real wage countercyclicality during demand shocks, though results tend to be more ambiguous following a supply shock, (i.e. Huang and Liu 2002, Huang, Liu and Phaneuf 2004, Malley, Muscatelli and Woitek 2005; or on the role of various production technologies that a¤ect the cyclicality of real wage (i.e. Liu 2002, Huang, Liu andPhaneuf, 2004 wages are stickier than prices.…”