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How the provision of unemployment benefits affects employment and unemployment is a debated issue. In this paper, we … job market with search effort and labor force participation decisions while varying the maximum length of unemployment … effort when unemployment benefits are extended. However, individuals are more likely to participate in the labor force and to …
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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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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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Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …
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, whereby special focus is placed on unemployment duration. The results of the study indicate that in contrast to reservation … wages, offered wages decline considerably with duration of unemployment. This is the main reason that ratios of reservation … wages to offered wages increase rapidly with duration of unemployment; on average, reservation wages begin to exceed offered …
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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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The Venezuelan migration to Peru has been growing at fast speed since 2016 reaching a peak in 2018. Using a panel that allows us to control for individual effects, we study the heterogeneous short-term responses to the inflow of Venezuelan migrants in terms of employment, informality and...
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German labor market volatilities by a longer expected job duration. -- Labor Market Volatilities ; Unemployment ; Worker …
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with unemployment and bargaining frictions. Shocks to long-run inflation expectations appear to account for much of the …
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