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Job polarization refers to the recent shrinking concentration of employment in occupations in the middle of the skill distribution. Jobless recoveries refers to the slow rebound in aggregate employment following recent recessions, despite recoveries in aggregate output. We show how these two...
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-aged individuals. Understanding the mechanism underlying this observation is key to explaining the volatility of aggregate hours over …
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composition of the labor force account for a significant fraction of the variation in business cycle volatility observed in the U … that the age composition of the workforce has a large and statistically significant effect on cyclical volatility. We … conclude by relating these findings to the recent decline in U.S. business cycle volatility. Through simple quantitative …
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-cycle volatility, while preserving the model's properties in terms of comovement, and relative volatilities. In contrast, optimism is … not a useful source of volatility in our model …
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Aggregate and sectoral comovement are central features of business cycle data. Therefore, the ability to generate comovement is a natural litmus test for macroeconomic models. But it is a test that most existing models fail. In this paper we propose a unified model that generates both aggregate...
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