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unemployment, very low volatility of labour market tightness, and for a positively sloped Beveridge curve. These implications are …
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which there are multiple equilibrium unemployment rates. The model has two equations in common with the new-Keynesian model …
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The deep recession has led to a marked deterioration in labour market conditions in the OECD area. This paper, which draws heavily on other ongoing analytical work at the OECD, takes stock of recent labour market developments, highlights some of the key uncertainties in the early stages of the...
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We argue that firms’ balance sheets were instrumental in the propagation of shocks during the Great Recession. Using establishment-level data, we show that firms that tightened their debt capacity in the run-up (“high-leverage firms”) exhibit a significantly larger decline in employment in...
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Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment loss. Employers’ reticence to hire in the preceding expansion, associated in part with a lack of confidence it would last, contributed to an employment shortfall equivalent to...
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This paper develops a theory characterizing the effects of fiscal policy on unemployment over the business cycle. The … theory is based on a model of equilibrium unemployment in which jobs are rationed in recessions. Fiscal policy in the form of … government spending on public-sector jobs reduces unemployment, especially during recessions: the fiscal multiplier …
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A search-theoretic general equilibrium model of frictional unemployment is shown to be consistent with some of the key … regularities of unemployment over the business cycle. In the model the return to a job moves stochastically. Agents can choose … unemployment. …
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unemployment, then free migration reduces unemployment, narrows wage differentials and expands world output. …
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description of the U.S. business cycle, and that the inflation/unemployment trade-off facing monetary policymakers is … staggered nominal wage bargaining. We find that the estimated natural rate of unemployment is consistent with the NBER … unemployment gaps are more efficient than rules responding to output or unemployment growth rates, also in the presence of …
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This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are heterogeneous variations in the characteristics of workers and jobs, and firms face adjustment costs in responding to these variations. Matches and separations are described...
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