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How do wages respond to financial recessions? Based on a dynamic macroeconomic model with frictions in the labor and … and explore their effect on wages. First, the financial labor wedge reduces wages. Second, financial constraints may … interact with aggregate labor market conditions in various ways putting upward or downward pressure on wages. We test partial …
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U.S. CPS gross flows data indicate that in recessions firms actually increase their hiring rates from the pools of the unemployed and out of the labor force. Why so? The paper provides an explanation by studying the optimal recruiting behavior of the representative firm. This behavior is a...
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Ethnic minority men find it harder to obtain good jobs in the UK labour market than White British men. Over time, while the very high unemployment rates experienced by some non-white ethnic groups have significantly declined and their share of good jobs has grown, their share of bad jobs has...
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Much of macroeconomics is concerned with the allocation of physical capital, human capital, and labor over time and across people. The decisions on savings, education, and labor supply that generate these variables are made within families. Yet the family (and decision-making in families) is...
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We analyze lifetime earnings histories of white males during 1960-2010 and categorize the labor force status of every worker as either working full-time, partially retired or fully retired. We find that the fraction of partially retired workers has risen dramatically (from virtually 0 to 15...
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This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on "frictional growth" describing the interplay between nominal frictions and money growth. When the money supply grows in the presence of price inertia (due to staggered wage contracts with time discounting), the...
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insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression … balance between two offsetting forces: UI causes agents to seek higher-wage jobs, but also reduces wages by lengthening … both in our sample and across studies, reconciling disparate wage-effect estimates. Empirically, UI raises wages by …
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In this paper we use a newly constructed dataset following 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to labor market and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We...
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