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This paper introduces risk averse workers into a search and matching model and considers the quantitative performance … search and matching models. … in unemployment and vacancies but also wages, is the drop in consumption for the unemployed. In addition, explaining the …
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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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Some economic observers argue “structural unemployment” has increased in the wake of the Great Recession, but in this paper we find little support for either of two arguments that suggest that structural unemployment has been on the rise. The first argument focuses on the large increase in...
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This paper explores wage-setting in the presence of asymmetric information. Firms know their own productivity, while workers only know the distribution of productivity in the economy. Although there is unemployment in equilibrium, the labor market is competitive in the sense of Moen (1997):...
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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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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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labor market models have a hard time generating the degree of cyclical volatility in unemployment and vacancies that is … studies a dynamic matching model with downward wage rigidity. Like Mortensen and Pissarides (2001) and Jansen (2001), we … surplus of jobs exhibits substantially more cyclical volatility than in standard matching models with transferable utility …
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Many lawmakers, policymakers, and economic commentators do not appear to recognize the depth of the current labor-market recession. Between December 2007 – the official first month of the recession – and December 2009, the U.S. economy lost more than eight million jobs. Even if the economy...
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From the early 1990s through the peak of the last business cycle, relatively low U.S. unemployment rates seemed to make the United States a model for the rest of the world’s economies. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and...
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