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In this paper we study the structure of labor market flows in Spain and compare them with France and the US. We characterize a number of empirical regularities and stylized facts. One striking result is that the job finding rate is slightly higher than in France, while the jon loss rate is much...
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We construct and calibrate a general equilibrium business cycle model with unemployment and precautionary saving. We compute the cost of business cycles and locate the optimum in a set of simple cyclical fiscal policies. Our economy exhibits productivity shocks, giving firms an incentive to hire...
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Temporary employment contracts allowing unrestricted dismissals were introduced in Spain in 1984 and quickly came to account for most new jobs. As a result, temporary employment increased from around 10% in the mid-eighties to more than 30% in the early nineties. In 1997, however, the Spanish...
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employees. This paper develops a matching model that can explain the link between inter-industry wage differentials and use of …-workers, allowing firms to pay lower efficiency wages. On the other hand, informal search provides fewer job and applicant contacts than … formal methods (e.g., newspaper ads). In equilibrium, the matching process generates segmentation in the labor market because …
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theoretical contribution is combining a job matching model with monopolistic competition in the goods market and individual wage …
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develops an equilibrium matching model which can explain these empirical regularities. In this model, the matching process … the labor market search for jobs through formal methods. The split of firms and workers between referrals and formal … search is, however, not necessarily efficient. Congestion externalities in referral search imply that unemployment would be …
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In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment …
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We consider the dynamic relationship between product market entry regulation and equilibrium unemployment. The main theoretical contribution is combining a Mortensen-Pissarides model with monopolistic competition in the goods market and individual wage bargaining. Product market competition...
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matching model which illustrates how barriers to entry in the product market mitigate the impact of labor market deregulation …
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We build an otherwise-standard business cycle model with housework, calibrated consistently with data on time use, in order to discipline consumption-hours complementarity and relate its strength to the size of fiscal multipliers. We show that if substitutability between home and market goods is...
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