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model that allows for duration dependence in the exit rate from unemployment and for transitions between employment (E …
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We use an estimated monetary business cycle model with search and matching frictions in the labor market and nominal price and wage rigidities to study four countries (the U.S., the U.K., Sweden, and Germany) during the financial crisis and the Great Recession. We estimate the model over the...
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We identify the timing of currency, banking crises and sudden stops in New Zealand from 1880 to 2008, and consider the extent to which empirical models can explain New Zealand's crisis history. We find that the cross country evidence on the determinants of crises fits New Zealand experience...
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responsible for the slow recovery of employment, though not for the initial drop. Monetary policy shocks predict an inflation rate … 0.5% below average. Government expenditure innovations do not contribute much either to inflation or to employment …
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We examine quantitatively the extent to which financial distress in the 1990s affected employment behavior in Japan … financial distress on employment into consideration. We find that the firm's ratio of debt to total asset exerts a significantly … negative effect on employment of small firms. We also find that employment of small firms is sensitively affected by lending …
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employment" growth, with regions that concentrated on the production of durable goods or inputs to the" construction sector …
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During the recession of 2008-9, labor hours fell sharply, while wages and output per hour rose. Some, but not all, of the productivity and wage increase can be attributed to changing quality of the workforce. The rest of the increase appears to be due to increases in production inputs other than...
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constraint. Our evidence indicates that constrained firms planned deeper cuts in tech spending, employment, and capital spending …
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The financial crisis and ensuing Great Recession left the U.S. economy in an injured state. In 2013, output was 13 percent below its trend path from 1990 through 2007. Part of this shortfall--2.2 percentage points out of the 13--was the result of lingering slackness in the labor market in the...
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Beginning in 1951, the Conference Board constructed a monthly job vacancy index by counting the number of help-wanted ads published in local newspapers in 51 metropolitan areas. We use the Help-Wanted Index (HWI) to document how immigration changes the number of job vacancies in the affected...
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