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What Can a New Keynesian Labor Matching Model Match?
Reicher, Christopher - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
A labor matching model with nominal rigidities can match short-run movements in labor’s share with some success. However, it cannot explain much of the behavior of employment, vacancies, and job flows in postwar US data without resorting to additional shocks beyond monetary policy and...
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The Inflation-Output Tradeoff: Which Type of Labor Market Rigidity Is to Be Blamed?
Merkl, Christian - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
In the standard New Keynesian sticky price model the central bank faces no contradiction between the stabilization of inflation and the stabilization of the welfare relevant output gap after a productivity shock hits the economy. When the standard model is enhanced by real wage rigidities or...
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Growth and Unemployment in the Presence of Trend Inflation
Tesfaselassie, Mewael F. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
The standard search model of unemployment predicts, under plausible assumptions about household preferences, that … disembodied technological progress leads to higher unemployment. This prediction is at odds with the experience of industrialized … model's prediction. In the presence of nominal price rigidity faster growth is shown to lead to lower unemployment if the …
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The aggregate effects of long run sectoral reallocation
Reicher, Claire - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
The construction bust which accompanied the Great Recession, and the accompanying need to shift workers across sectors, have provoked a discussion about mismatch and the Beveridge Curve, alongside a discussion about firm-level dispersion. These discussions echo an ongoing discussion about the...
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An Incentive Theory of Matching
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
This paper examines the labour market matching process by distinguishing its two component stages: the contact stage, in which job searchers make contact with employers and the selection stage, in which they decide whether to match. We construct a theoretical model explaining two-sided selection...
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A tale of two countries: A comparison of the aggregate effects of sectoral reallocation in the United States and Germany
Reicher, Christopher - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
stochastic volatility model of sectoral employment growth. Reallocative shocks have no effect on the natural rate of unemployment … the rise in trend unemployment in Germany in the 1980s or for a possible rise in trend unemployment in the United States …
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The aggregate effects of long run sectoral reallocation
Reicher, Christopher - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
measure construction and technology busts) have little effect on the natural rate of unemployment or on long run productivity … of unemployment and can count for a 0.5% rise in cyclical unemployment from 2007 through the end of 2009 and 0.3% through …
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An Incentive Theory of Matching
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
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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Expectations, Monetary Policy, and Labor Markets: Lessons from the Great Depression
Reicher, Christopher P. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
with unemployment and bargaining frictions. Shocks to long-run inflation expectations appear to account for much of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017500
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Stabilizing an unstable economy: on the choice of proper policy measures
Asada, Toichiro; Chiarella, Carl; Flaschel, Peter; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
Currently, many monetary and fiscal policy measures are aimed at preventing the financial market meltdown that started in the US subprime sector and has spread worldwide as a great recession. Although some slow recovery appears to be on the horizon, it is worthwhile exploring the fragility and...
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