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differences in labor mobility and reallocation costs, which are typically ignored in American "International Trade" textbooks … human capital investments: they are not independent of the aggregate state of labor markets, and in particular, frictions … and slackness of the labor market raises the returns to specific human capital investments relative to general capital …
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labor market states. In steady-state, we hence have a theory of equilibrium unemployment determined by both matching … labor force and rises the share of attached workers. Finally, our theory suggests that contrary to two-state models … frictions and labor market participation margins. The paper firstly rationalizes and quantitatively accounts for the existence …
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Building a model with three imperfect markets - goods, labor and credit - representing a product's life-cycle, we find … that goods market frictions drastically change the qualitative and quantitative dynamics of labor market variables. The … search models of the labor market fail in one of the two dimensions. Two factors related to goods market frictions generate …
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Unemployment may depend on equilibrium in other markets than the labor markets. This paper adresses this old idea by … introducing search frictions on several markets: in a model of credit and labor market imperfections as in Wasmer and Weil (2004 …
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follow this line of research to the labor literature concerned by the volatility of labor market outcomes to productivity … shocks initiated by Shimer (2005): in an economy with search on credit and labor markets, a financial multiplier raises the … elasticity of labor market tightness to productivity shocks. This multiplier increases with total financial costs and is …
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