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model does a good job of accounting for the joint behavior of labor and goods markets, as well as inflation, during the … capital played critical roles in accounting for the small size of the drop in inflation that occurred during the Great …
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small businesses in the United States are one of the drivers explaining the unemployment dynamics during the Great Recession …
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The 2007-2009 recession is characterized by: a large drop in employment, an unprecedented decline in firm entry, and a slow recovery. Using confidential firm-level data, I show that financial constraints reduced employment growth in small relative to large firms by 4.8 to 10.5 percentage points....
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unemployment between the early 1980s and the early 2000s, and a decline in participation since the early 2000s. Using CPS micro … nonparticipants implies a lower unemployment rate, because marginal nonparticipants enter the labor force mostly through unemployment …
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We develop a theory that focuses on the general equilibrium and long-run macroeconomic consequences of trends in job utility. Given secular increases in job utility, work hours per capita can remain approximately constant over time even if the income effect of higher wages on labor supply...
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unemployment and underemployment, employment, workweeks, wages, vacancies, hiring, layoffs, quits, and surveys of consumers' and … payroll employment and the unemployment rate. Other influential indicators include the insured unemployment rate, consumers … perspective of the model, the unemployment rate declined a bit faster over the past two years than was consistent with the other …
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Many countries have large employment shares in micro and small firms that have limited access to formal financing and therefore rely on input credit. Such countries are mainly emerging and developing economies, whose business cycle dynamics are increasingly important for the global economy in...
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potentially nonlinear effects of inflation on economic growth. We find that inflation is associated with significantly lower … effects of inflation on economic growth. We also document significant variation in the effect of inflation on growth across …
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We study the pricing response of U.S. supermarkets to large demand shocks triggered by labor conflicts, mass population relocation, and shopping sprees around major snowstorms and hurricanes. Our focus on demand shocks is novel in the empirical literature that uses large datasets of individual...
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expected inflation. The inability of the Fed to maintain a credible commitment to low interest rates in the face of increased … government spending and rising inflation led to the Fed-Treasury Accord of March 1951. Following the Accord, the external …
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