Saez, Emmanuel; Michaillat, Pascal - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper develops a model of unemployment fluctuations. The model keeps the architecture of the general-disequilibrium … affects unemployment: with a higher aggregate demand, firms find more customers; this reduces the idle time of their employees … disequilibrium approach. On the product and labor markets, both price and tightness adjust to equalize supply and demand. Since there …