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A labor matching model with nominal rigidities can match short-run movements in labor's share with some success …
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Can the standard search-and-matching labor market model replicate the business cycle fluctuations of the job finding …
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This paper documents the short run and long run behavior of the search and matching model with staggered Nash wage …
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Standard macroeconomic models underpredict the volatility of unemployment fluctuations. A common solution is to assume wages are rigid. We explore whether this explanation is consistent with the data. We show that the wage of newly hired workers, unlike the aggregate wage, is volatile and...
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This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, labor market tightness, and job vacancies) divided by the volatility of labor...
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In this paper, I discuss three sets of links which I uncover in the data on aggregate US job and worker flows. Job flows are strongly related to aggregate employment growth, while worker flows are strongly related to employment growth and the unemployment rate. I show that a simple frictionless...
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We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …
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build on a partial equilibrium search and matching model and expand the model to a general equilibrium model with sticky … sticky price model outperforms the staggered wage model in terms of matching volatilities, while the combination of both …
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Several authors have proposed staggered wage bargaining as a way to introduce sticky wages into search and matching … a series of estimated shocks from US data into a search and matching model with sticky prices and wages. I compare the … cycle volatility and matching the lack of a long-run relationship between vacancy creation and inflation. With regard to …
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We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …
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