Similar Search Results

Commodity prices and markets : [NBER East Asia Seminar on Economics, volume 20 ; collection of papers that were presented at the 20th Annual East Asia Seminar on Economics (EASE) ;...

Itō, Takatoshi (contributor); Rose, Andrew (contributor) - 2011

Forecasting currencies with commodity prices -- Commodity prices, commodity currencies, and global economic developments / Jan J. J. Groen and Paolo A. Pesenti -- Comments: Kalok Chan, Roberto S. Mariano -- The relationship between commodity prices and currency exchange rates: evidence from the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008909722

The Employment, Earnings, and Income of Less Skilled Workers Over the Business Cycle

Hoynes, Hilary - 1999

In this paper, I examine the effect of business cycles on the employment, earnings, and income of persons in different demographic groups. I classify individuals by sex, education, and race. The analysis uses data from the Current Population Survey's Outgoing Rotation Group file, covering the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471600

The Effect of Macroeconomic Uncertainty on Household Spending

Coibion, Olivier; Georgarakos, Dimitris; Gorodnichenko, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Using a new survey of European households, we study how exogenous variation in the macroeconomic uncertainty perceived by households affects their spending decisions. We use randomized information treatments that provide different types of information about the first and/or second moments of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496179

Structural and Cyclical Forces in the Labor Market During the Great Recession : Cross-Country Evidence

Sala, Luca - 2012

price and wage rigidities to study four countries (the U.S., the U.K., Sweden, and Germany) during the financial crisis and … factors were also important in the U.K., but less so in Sweden and Germany. Reduced matching efficiency was considerably less … important in the U.K. and Sweden than in the U.S., but matching efficiency improved in Germany, helping to keep unemployment low …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460226

Pollution and Labor Market Search Externalities Over the Business Cycle

Gibson, John - 2020

We study the relationship between unemployment, environmental policy, and business cycles. We develop a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium real business cycle model that includes both a pollution externality and congestion externalities from labor market search frictions, which generate...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481640

Fluctuations in Weekly Hours and Total Hours Worked Over the Past 90 Years and the Importance of Changes in Federal Policy Toward Job Sharing

Neumann, Todd - 2013

During the Great Depression of 1930s, changes in the workweek drove a larger portion of changes in total labor input than in other decades. Work-sharing policies appear to be responsible. Hoover created various work-sharing committees lead by key industrialists, which pushed for shorter...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459846

Spurring Job Creation in Response to Severe Recessions : Reconsidering Hiring Credits

Neumark, David - 2011

The continuing adverse labor market effects of the Great Recession have intensified interest in policy efforts to spur job creation. In periods when labor demand and supply are in balance, either hiring credits or worker subsidies can be used to boost employment - hiring credits by reducing...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461792

Cyclical Worker Flows : Cleansing vs. Sullying

Haltiwanger, John C.; Hyatt, Henry R.; McEntarfer, Erika; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Do recessions speed up or impede productivity-enhancing reallocation? To investigate this question, we use U.S. linked employer-employee data to examine how worker flows contribute to productivity growth over the business cycle. We find that in expansions high-productivity firms grow faster...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533351

On the Driving Forces Behind Cyclical Movement, in Employment and Job Reallocation

Davis, Steven J. - 1996

We rely on a decomposition of employment changes into job creation and job destruction components - and a novel set of identifying restrictions that this decomposition permits - to develop new evidence about the driving forces behind aggregate fluctuations and the channels through which they...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473059

Gross Job Creation, Gross Job Destruction and Employment Reallocation

Davis, Steve J. - 1991

This study measures the heterogeneity of establishment-level employment changes in the U.S. manufacturing sector over the 1972 to 1986 period. We measure this heterogeneity in terms of the gross creation and destruction of jobs and the rate at which jobs are reallocated across plants. Our...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475277