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labor input, but it predicts a strong counterfactually negative long run relationship between inflation and unemployment … negative long run relationship between trend inflation and unemployment provides indirect evidence against the proposed …. -- Sticky wages ; staggered Nash bargaining ; trend inflation ; unemployment ; search and matching …
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The Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides search and matching model is the workhorse of labor macro, but it has difficulty in simultaneously matching the cyclical behavior of job loss and vacancies when taken to the data. By completely ignoring frictions in job creation and focusing instead on firm-level...
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the unemployment rate. I show that a simple frictionless business cycle model with heterogeneity and a simple form of on … employment growth. Worker flows are related to both employment growth and the unemployment rate, and quits and hires are …-the-job search, and quits beget hires to replace quitters. High unemployment crowds out quits, shortens the hiring chain, reduces the …
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Several authors have proposed staggered wage bargaining as a way to introduce sticky wages into search and matching models while preserving individual rationality. I evaluate the quantitative implications of such an approach. I feed through a series of estimated shocks from US data into a search...
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. -- Unemployment ; labor market search ; job flows ; labor share ; inflation ; productivity shocks ; monetary shocks …
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In the United States, labor's share of income falls after a positive disturbance to productivity growth or inflation, and it remains low for some time. Previous researchers have argued that the negative relationship between productivity growth and labor's share is puzzling. I argue otherwise. A...
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