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The negative and stable relationship between an economy’s aggregate demand conditions and overall unemployment is well …-documented. We show that there is a large degree of heterogeneity in the cyclical sensitivities of unemployment across worker and … economy groups. First, unemployment is more than twice as sensitive to aggregate demand in advanced as in emerging market and …
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medium-term business cyclefluctuations in GDP, its components and the unemployment rate. Additionally, it …
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unemployment on inflation,for given expected inflation, decreased until the early 1990s, but has remained roughly stable since then …
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In this paper, we provide compelling evidence that cyclical factors account for the bulk of thepost-2007 decline in the U.S. labor force participation rate. We then proceed to formulate astylized New Keynesian model in which labor force participation is essentially acyclical during“normal...
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Labor market informality is a pervasive feature of most developing economies. Motivated by the empirical regularity that the labor informality rate falls with GDP per capita, both at business cycle frequency and in a cross-section of countries, and that the Okun's coefficient falls with the...
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Inflation and unemployment rate were largely disconnected between 2000 and 2019 in advanced economies. We decompose …) both the cyclical and non-cyclical parts had surges across advaced economies in 2011, when unemployment rates had limited … inflation and unemployment rate. The approach has potential to help understand forces shaping price pressures during the …
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of adjustment during economic downturns mitigating unemployment, the trade-off has been a lower speed of adjustment to …
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unemployment. As such, our work contributes to resolving twolimitations of current general equilibrium labor-search theory: under … standard calibrations modelswithout OTJ search generate implausibly low unemployment volatility, while models with OTJsearch … generate unemployment volatility closer to the data but at the expense of implausibly lowconsumption and labor …
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