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that: - Shocks to the user cost of capital lower job creation, net employment growth and productivity and raise destruction …. Increases in non-wage labor costs lead to bigger job destruction and reallocation and to smaller net employment and productivity …. Lower sectoral tariffs raise job destruction, reallocation and productivity and reduce net employment growth. - Industries …
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Recent research shows that observed labor market flows can be explained in search and matching models only by assuming either implausibly large productivity shocks (Hall 2003) or an excessively high degree of real wage rigidity even for new hires (Shimer 2003). If this is not the case, the...
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This paper uses the open economy structural VAR model developed in Buckle, Kim, Kirkham, McLellan and Sharma (2002) to evaluate the impact of monetary policy on New Zealand business cycles and inflation variability and the output/inflation variability trade-off. The model includes a...
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This paper evaluates the performance of simple monetary policy rules in a calibrated model for the Chilean economy. The monetary regimes considered are: exchange rate peg, money peg, inflation targeting, nontradable inflation targeting, and a Taylor rule. We develop a small open economy model...
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employment. We present an overlapping generations model with production in which a labor market friction (moral hazard) coexists … is studied. Our main results are: (i) while credit market frictions affect real activity and employment both in the short …
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In a closed economy general equilibrium model, Hopenhayn and Rogerson (1993) find large welfare gains to removing firing restrictions. We explore the extent to which international trade alters this result. When economies trade, labor market policies in one country spill over to other countries...
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. First, efficiency wage models are often criticised because the employment contracts are not optimal. In the existing …
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interaction between inflation and labor market regulations affects how employment responds to changes in output. The results show …
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drop in output growth has not been a decline in TFP, but a severe fall in employment. Using a calibrated dynamic general … relative input prices, we conclude that a 6.17% increase in the cost of labor hiring replicates the observed fall in employment …
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affects the present value of future job-matches and thus reduces posted vacancies, employment and output. Thus we obtain an …
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