Bruegemann, Bjoern; Moscarini, Giuseppe - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006
Shimer (2005) showed that a standard search and matching model of the labor market fails to generate fluctuations of … unemployment and vacancies of the magnitude observed in US data in response to shocks to average labor productivity of plausible … response of unemployment and vacancies to a shock to average labor productivity. In light of these properties, cast in terms of …