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Informal unemployment insurance and labor market dynamics
Herkenhoff, Kyle F. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2012
How do job losers use default -- a phenomenon 6x more prevalent than bankruptcy --as a type of “informal" unemployment … the policies, however, is a .2-.5% higher unemployment rate during recessions that persists throughout the recovery. …
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Uniform working hours and structural unemployment
Liu, Haoming (contributor); Wen, Yi (contributor);  … - 2005
working schedules. This simple model can generate unemployment, even if wages adjust instantaneously, firms are perfectly … alternative explanation for why unskilled workers are a primary source of structural unemployment"--Federal Reserve Bank of St …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002956728
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A Bayesian approach to counterfactual analysis of structural change
Kim, Chang-jin (contributor); Morley, James C. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource], rev.
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U. S. regional business cycles and the natural rate of unemployment
Wall, Howard J.; Zoega, Gylfi - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2003
Estimates of the natural rate of unemployment are important in many macroeconomic models used by economists and policy … cycles do not move in lockstep and greater dispersion among regions can affect estimates of the natural rate of unemployment … constant, the reduction in the dispersion of regional unemployment rates between 1982 and 2000 would have meant a two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005360582
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Uniform working hours and structural unemployment
Liu, Haoming; Wen, Yi; Zhu, Lijing - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2005
working schedules. This simple model can generate unemployment, even if wages adjust instantaneously, firms are perfectly … alternative explanation for why unskilled workers are a primary source of structural unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005352804
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Hawks, doves, bubbles, and inflation targets
Bullard, James - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2012
April 16, 2012. "Hawks, Doves, Bubbles, and Inflation Targets" Presented at the George S. Eccles Distinguished Lecture, Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, Utah State University.
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Some unpleasant implications for unemployment targeters
Bullard, James - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2013
April 17, 2013. Presentation. "Some Unpleasant Implications for Unemployment Targeters." 22nd Annual Hyman P. Minsky …
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The British Beveridge curve: a tale of ten regions
Wall, Howard J.; Zoega, Gylfi - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2001
Recent work has suggested the possibility that the Beveridge curve can shift over the business cycle. This is in contrast with a large body of literature claiming that Beveridge curves have shifted due to structural changes alone. To test these claims, we use county-level data to estimate the...
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Searching for better prospects: endogenizing falling job tenure and private pension coverage
Friedberg, Leora; Owyang, Michael T.; Sinclair, Tara M. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2006
Recent declines in job tenure have coincided with a shift away from traditional defined benefit (DB) pensions, which reward long tenure. New evidence also points to an increase in job-to-job movements by workers, and we document gains in relative wages of job-to-job movers over a similar period....
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