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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 … dynamic behavior of the labor share of GDP. The counter-cyclicality of hiring rates and job values, which may appear counter … productivity and the forward-looking concept of job value. The paper explains the high volatility of firm recruiting behavior, as …
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Hiring is a costly activity reflecting firms' investment in their workers. Micro-data shows that hiring costs involve … optimal allocation of hiring activities. We outline a mechanism based on cyclical markup fluctuations, placing emphasis on … hiring frictions interacting with price frictions. This mechanism generates strong propagation and amplification of all key …
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comovement between matches, unemployment, and vacancies in dynamic labor market models: either by assuming a standard Cobb …
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This paper analyzes the effects of different labor market institutions on inflation and output volatility. The eurozone … could account for volatility differences across member states, but labor market characteristics have remained very diverse … significant negative effect on output volatility, while replacement rates have a positive effect, both of which are in line with …
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vacancies) divided by the volatility of labor productivity is roughly twice as large as in the United States. We derive and …This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility …
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Standard macroeconomic models underpredict the volatility of unemployment fluctuations. A common solution is to assume … jobs. This form of wage rigidity does not affect job creation and thus cannot explain the unemployment volatility puzzle …
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This paper connects two salient economic features: (i) Fiscal shocks have asymmetric effects across business cycle phases (Gechert et al., 2019); (ii) Okun's coefficient is time varying and may be unstable. The intertwined dynamic behavior of fiscal shocks and unemployment-output trade-offs are...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an explosion of research using private-sector datasets to measure business dynamics and employment in real-time. Yet questions remain about the representativeness of these datasets and how to distinguish business openings and closings from sample churn – i.e.,...
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The Canadian labour market experienced a period of unprecedented turmoil following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyze the main changes using standard labour force statistics and new data on job postings. Envisaging a phase of temporary severing of employment relationships followed by...
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percent increase in the state-level effective minimum wage reduces vacancies by 2.4 percent in the same quarter, and the … cumulative effect is as large as 4.5 percent a year later. The negative effect on vacancies is more pronounced for occupations …. We argue that our focus on vacancies versus on employment has a distinct advantage of highlighting a mechanism through …
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