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Unemployment inflows fell from 4 percent of employment per month in the early 1980s to 2 percent or less by the mid … parameter in search and matching models of unemployment. According to these models, a lower intensity of idiosyncratic shocks … produces less job destruction, fewer workers flowing through the unemployment pool and less frictional unemployment. To …
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market frictions. We characterize the distributions of employment, unemployment, wages and income within and between sectors … as a function of structural parameters. We find that greater firm heterogeneity increases unemployment, wage inequality … frictions have non-monotonic effects on aggregate unemployment and inequality through within- and between-sector components …
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relates average unemployment to average wage inflation; the curve is virtually vertical for high inflation rates but becomes …, at low inflation. Fourth, when inflation decreases, volatility of unemployment increases whereas the volatility of … inflation decreases: this implies a long-run trade-off also between the volatility of unemployment and that of wage inflation …
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This paper presents new evidence on why unemployment insurance (UI) benefits affect search behavior and develops a … unemployment durations caused by UI benefits is due to a quot;liquidity effectquot; rather than distortions in marginal incentives …
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We study the long-run relation between money, measured by inflation or interest rates, and unemployment. We first … where both money and unemployment are modeled using explicit microfoundations, integrating and extending recent work in … accounts for some but not that much of trend unemployment -- by one measure, about 1/5 of the increase during the stagflation …
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We construct a utility-based model of fluctuations, with nominal rigidities and unemployment, and draw its implications … for the unemployment-inflation tradeoff and for the conduct of monetary policy.lt;brgt;lt;brgt;We proceed in two steps. We … effect on unemployment in the constrained efficient allocation. We then focus on the implications of alternative real wage …
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establishments; b) the amplitude and propagation of cyclical fluctuations in flows between employment and unemployment; c) the … negative comovement of unemployment and vacancies in the form of the Beveridge curve; and d) the dynamics of the distribution …
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This paper presents a model in which firms recruit both unemployed and employed workers by posting vacancies. Firms act monopsonistically and set wages to retain their existing workers as well as to attract new ones. The model differs from Burdett and Mortensen (1998) in that its assumptions...
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We show that data on satisfaction with life from over 600,000 Europeans are negatively correlated with the unemployment … the public is willing to accept in terms of unemployment for inflation, at least in terms of keeping the average level of …
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Critics of pay or play mandates, borrowing from the large empirical minimum wage literature, provide evidence that they reduce employment. Borrowing from a smaller empirical minimum wage literature, we provide evidence that they also are a blunt instrument for funding health insurance for the...
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