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are controlled for. However, the black-white homeownership gap disappears if differences in own and parental wealth and in …
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This paper examines whether the Mortensen-Pissarides matching model can account for the housing market facts, most of …
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We propose a flexible prices model where endogenous market structures and search and matching frictions in the labor … addressing the unemployment-volatility puzzle. Consistently with U.S. evidence, new firms create a large fraction of new jobs and …
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We propose a flexible prices model where endogenous market structures and search and matching frictions in the labor … addressing the unemployment-volatility puzzle. Consistently with U.S. evidence, new firms create a large fraction of new jobs and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008871164
vacancies through frictions in matching workers and firms and generate predictions that have the right direction: unemployment … matching models are the primary and most popular theoretical tools used by economists to evaluate various labour market … policies and to study the problem of unemployment. These models explain the co-existence in equilibrium of unemployment and …
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losses they entail. However, countries that adopted such policies are also plagued by persistent unemployment, and debt … debt and (ii) the search and matching frictions in the labor market and quantifies the output and employment losses … instance, a 25% debt reduction yields a 50% increase in unemployment along the adjustment path. The paper also shows that …
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This paper incorporates two features of housing in a life-cycle analysis of social security: housing as a durable good and housing market frictions. We find that with housing as a durable good unfunded social security substantially crowds out housing consumption throughout the life cycle. By...
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Previous research on migration has focused more on the effect of wage differences between the destination and the origin on migration and less on how non-pecuniary attachments workers have to their current location may affect their migration decisions. In this paper, we examine how the presence...
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housing investment without major reliance on a mortgage. The model also shows that the tenant, who suffers from insufficient … mortgage borrowings, can access cheaper rental housing via chonsei than when only monthly rental housing is available. The …
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The fundamental connection between the spatial development of cities and financial markets is a topic that has received little attention from either urbanists or economists. In this short piece, I argue that part of the post-crisis recovery is predicated on a multi-faceted understanding of the...
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