Specifically, wages are often said to be sticky-down, meaning that they can move up easily but move down only with difficulty. Stickiness in general is also often called ânominal rigidityâ and the phenomenon of sticky wages is also often referred to as âwage stickiness.â.
Daughter of Beth and David Carpenter, Sabrina was born in 1999 near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She has two sisters Shannon and Sarah who are also extremely talented in both dance and singing. Sabrina's first taste of entertaining, besides dancing at age 2, was in kindergarten.
Michelle and her older brother Craig, now an Ivy League basketball coach at Brown University, grew up hearing the story of their maternal grandfather. 1  A carpenter who was denied union membership due to race, he was shut out of the city's top construction jobs.