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We develop a theoretical model with labor market frictions, incomplete financial markets and with households which have two members. Households face unemployment risks but their members adjust their labor supplies to insure against unemployment. We use the model to explain the cyclical...
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modification substantially lowers the effective stickiness of nominal wages, resulting in markedly different wage and inflation …Heterogeneous-agent New Keynesian models with sticky nominal wages usually assume that wage-setting unions demand the …, wages and inflation to monetary policy shocks becomes notably less pronounced. This attenuation reflects that hours worked …
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We offer a decomposition for the variance of the current unemployment rate that not only measures the contributions of labor market flows but also of the approximation error embedded in other decompositions that use surrogates for the current rate. Using data for the United States and Brazil,...
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Discontinuities in the employment profile are supposed to cause wage cuts since they imply an interruption in the … significant wage cuts owing to the depreciation of human capital. Postponing the discontinuity leads to a further fall of the wage … depreciation rates. This we interpret as an indication for segregation in the labor market. We conclude that traditional wage …
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experiences of these macroeconomic outcomes they have made during life. Focusing on expectations about national inflation …
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