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Business cycle asymmetries and the labor market
Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian - 2016 - First version: April 2015. This version: February 2016
This paper shows that the matching function and the Beveridge curve in the United States exhibit strong nonlinearities over the business cycle. These patterns can be replicated by enhancing a search and matching model with idiosyncratic productivity shocks for new contacts. Large negative...
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Fiscal multipliers in a two-sector search and matching model
Angelopulos, Kōnstantinos; Jiang, Wei; Malley, James R. - 2015
This paper evaluates the effects of policy interventions on sectoral labour markets and the aggregate economy in a business cycle model with search and matching frictions. We extend the canonical model by including capital-skill complementarity in production, labour markets with skilled and...
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Wage setting in times of high and low inflation
Gödl, Maximilian; Gödl-Hanisch, Isabel - 2024
The recent surge in inflation led many unions and firms to alter their bargaining and wage-setting policies. Using … during periods of high and low inflation. We find state dependence along the extensive and intensive margins: the average … implications of state-dependent wage setting for the long-run effects of trend inflation, the transmission of monetary policy …
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Wage and employment cyclicalities at the establishment level
Merkl, Christian; Stüber, Heiko - 2021
We document substantial cross-sectional heterogeneity of German establishments' real wage cyclicality over the business cycle. While wages of the median establishment are moderately procyclical, 36 percent of establishments have countercyclical wages. We estimate a negative connection between...
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Business cycles, unemployment insurance, and the calibration of matching models
Costain, James; Reiter, Michael - 2003
This paper points out an empirical failing of real business cycle models in which unemployment is endogenized through a matching function. One can easily choose a calibration to make the cyclical fluctuation in unemployment as large in the model as it is in the data, or to make the response of...
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Unemployment benefits, contract length and nominal wage flexibility
Calmfors, Lars; Johansson, Åsa - 2001
We show in a union-bargaining model that a decrease in the unemployment benefit level increases not only equilibrium employment, but also nominal wage flexibility, and thus reduces employment variations in the case of nominal shocks. Long-term wage contracts lead to highter expected real wages...
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Okun in the euro : new evidence from structural Okun law's estimates for the euro area, 1979-2019
Campos, Nauro; Macchiarelli, Corrado; Mitropoulos, Fotios - 2024
This paper provides new estimates of Okun’s unemployment-output relationship in euro area countries between 1979 and 2019. We find our structural estimates are stable but substantially lower than the reduced-form estimates that tend to characterise the literature and that the responsiveness of...
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Heterogeneity in staggered wage bargaining and unemployment volatility puzzle
Kara, Engin; Park, Yongmin - 2017
It has been noted that the search and matching model cannot account for the observed unemployment fluctuations. Gertler and Trigari (2009) show this weakness of the model disappears when wage stickiness is introduced to the model. Pissarides (2009) disagrees with this modification, arguing that...
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The Beveridge curve and labour market flows : a reinterpretation
Gottfries, Nils; Stadin, Karolina - 2019
According to search-matching theory, the Beveridge curve slopes downward because vacancies are filled more quickly when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026458
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Wage bargaining and labor market policy with biased expectations
Balleer, Almut; Duernecker, Georg; Forstner, Susanne; … - 2023
Recent research documents mounting evidence for sizable and persistent biases in individual labor market expectations. This paper incorporates subjective expectations into a general equilibrium labor market model and studies the implications of biased expectations for wage bargaining, vacancy...
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