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-cycle-frequency fluctuations in unemployment and job vacancies, given shocks of a plausible magnitude. We use data on the cost of vacancy creation …
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supranational unemployment insurance scheme. The model is calibrated to the euro area's core and periphery and features a rich …-regional correlation of unemployment and inflation increases by up to 52% and 27%, respectively, compared to the decentralised setting. The …
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, this allows the model to generate fluctuations of unemployment, vacancies, and labor productivity whose magnitudes are lose …
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persistent movements of aggregate inflation. Moreover, the impact of a monetary policy shock on unemployment and inflation …In this paper we incorporate a labor market with matching frictions and wage rigidities into the New Keynesian business … cycle model. In particular, we analyze the effect of a monetary policy shock and investigate how labor market frictions …
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, this allows the model to generate fluctuations of unemployment, vacancies, and labor productivity whose magnitudes are …
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"unemployment volatility puzzle". We let new matches and continuing jobs differ by their productivity levels and by their … aggregate productivity shock generates a persistent productivity difference between the two types of matches, creating an … well behaving Beveridge curve, despite endogenous job destruction, and more volatile vacancies and unemployment, without a …
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This paper investigates the importance of labor market institutions for inflation and unemployment dynamics. Using the … Unemployment Rigidities (UR) and those that cause Real Wage Rigidities (RWR). The two types of institutions have opposite effects … and their interaction is crucial for the dynamics of inflation and unemployment. We estimate a panel VAR with …
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This paper asks two questions. First, can we detect empirically whether the shocks recovered from the estimates of a structural VAR are truly structural? Second, can the problem of nonfundamentalness be solved by considering additional information? The answer to the first question is "yes" and...
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Data from the 2009 Internet Survey of the Health and Retirement Study show that many U.S. households experienced large capital losses in housing and financial wealth, and that 5% of respondents lost their job during the Great Recession. As a consequence of these shocks, many households reduced...
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We consider a model with frictional unemployment and staggered wage bargaining where hours worked are negotiated every … period. The workers' bargaining power in the hours negotiation affects both unemployment volatility and inflation persistence … the new entrants wage rigidity required to match observed unemployment volatility …
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