%0 Report %A Carneiro, Anabela %A Portugal, Pedro %T Workers’ Flows and Real Wage Cyclicality %D 2007 %8 2007 Feb %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) %C Bonn %7 IZA Discussion Paper %N 2604 %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp2604 %X This study investigates real wage cyclicality in Portugal for the years of 1986-98, addressing the heterogeneity in wages responses to aggregate labor market conditions for workers’ hirings and separations. The results exhibit a moderate procyclical behavior of real wages for continuously employed workers, in particular, for job stayers. For workers’ accessions a strongly procyclical behavior in wages was observed, which is consistent with the idea that entry wages are much more procyclical than current wages. This empirical evidence suggests that even micro-data estimates of real wage cyclicality may conceal a strong procyclical wage behavior, when heterogeneity on wages responses to aggregate conditions between employed workers and hirings and separations is not taken into account. %K wage cyclicality %K hirings %K separations