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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 calibrated model leads to a significant reduction in...
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Unemployment may depend on equilibrium in other markets than the labor markets. This paper adresses this old idea by … stochastically in equilibrium. Financial market tightness is also a function of three parameters related to financial frictions. Job … creation and employment depend on the equilibrium in the other markets. Reciprocally, higher job destruction implies more …
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will introduce enough new goods to avoid such a situation. In contrast, the decentralized equilibrium may involve long run …. In the latter equilibrium, capital and the number of varieties are larger than in the former, while consumption of each …, the satiated equilibrium generically survives. For some parameter values, its growth rate is positive while labor supply …
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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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determined as equilibrium phenomena? What determines worker flows and transition rates from one labor market state to another … market in macroeconomics. Its success includes the modelling of labor market outcomes as equilibrium phenomena, the …
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general equilibrium model. In our framework, households can take actions (e.g., purchasing bednets or other goods) that …
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This paper considers the consequences of a two-sector vertically-integrated model of firms producing output using firm-specific capital with a second sector producing firm-specific capital by adapting raw capital purchased in the market. Analysts rarely observe each sector separately....
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The nineteenth century witnessed dramatic improvements in the legal rights of married women. Given that these changes took place long before women gained the right to vote, they amounted to a voluntary renouncement of power by men. In this paper, we investigate men's incentives for sharing power...
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Marriage has declined since 1960, with the drop being bigger for non-college educated individuals versus college educated ones. Divorce has increased, more so for the non-college educated. Additionally, positive assortative mating has risen. Income inequality among households has also widened. A...
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This paper analyses the effects of disease and war on the accumulation of human and physical capital. We employ an overlapping-generations frame-work in which young adults, confronted with such hazards and motivated by old-age provision and altruism, make decisions about investments in schooling...
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