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job search model how the combined assumptions of on-the-job search and wage renegotiation by mutual consent act as a … quantitatively plausible quot;internal propagation mechanismquot; of i.i.d. productivity shocks into persistent wage shocks. The … model suggests that wage dynamics should be thought of as the outcome of a specific acceptance/rejection scheme of i …
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We investigate the impact of a substantial minimum wage increase, which became effective in January 2016, on consumer … by banks with a historically high share of low-wage loan customers have increased relative to those provided by banks … with a historically low share of low-wage loan customers after January 2016. Our results suggest that consumer loan flows …
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This paper analyzes Germany's unusual labor market experience during the Great Recession. We estimate a general equilibrium model with a detailed labor market block for post-unification Germany. This allows us to disentangle the role of institutions (short-time work, government spending rules)...
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This paper connects two salient economic features: (i) Fiscal shocks have asymmetric effects across business cycle phases (Gechert et al., 2019); (ii) Okun's coefficient is time varying and may be unstable. The intertwined dynamic behavior of fiscal shocks and unemployment-output trade-offs are...
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We present a new theory of wage adjustment, based on worker loss aversion. In line with prospect theory, the workers …' perceived utility losses from wage decreases are weighted more heavily than the perceived utility gains from wage increases of … equal magnitude. Wage changes are evaluated relative to an endogenous reference wage, which depends on the workers' rational …
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Wage inequality has risen in many countries over recent decades. At the same time, production has become increasingly … shocks that increase concentration will also lead to an increase in wage dispersion between firms. Empirically, we use …-tically significant correlation between concentration and between-firm wage inequality, driven by increases in market shares and wages in …
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We study workers' idiosyncratic earnings risk over the life-cycle using a German administrative data set. Positive and negative earnings shocks both contain a highly persistent component. The variance and average size of positive persistent shocks is decreasing over the life-cycle. The...
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We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period 2000 to 2019. The shock plateaued in 2010, enabling analysis of its effects for nearly a decade past its culmination. Adverse impacts of import competition on manufacturing employment,...
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Using 136 United States macroeconomic indicators from 1973 to 2017, and a factor augmented vector autoregression (FAVAR) framework with sign restrictions, we investigate the effects of three structural macroeconomic shocks - monetary, demand, and supply - on the labour market outcomes of black...
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This paper analyses the impact of the business cycle on labour market dynamics in EU member states and the US during the first decade of the 21st century. Using unique measures of labour market flows constructed from worker-level micro data, we examine to what extent macro shocks were...
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