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wage bargaining, which generates time-varying labor income shares under incomplete markets. As inequality increases … bonds. At the same time, greater wage instability raises workers' demand for safe assets. The resulting surge in …
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We design and field an innovative survey of unemployment insurance (UI) recipients that yields new insights about wage … stickiness on the layoff margin. Most UI recipients express a willingness to accept wage cuts of 5-10 percent to save their jobs … wage cuts would save their jobs. For lost union jobs, 45 percent say contractual restrictions prevent wage cuts. Among …
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are instead determined endogenously. We simultaneously extend the standard effort efficiency-wage model by incorporating …
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We introduce a form of downward nominal wage rigidity that can vary in intensity across a continuum of labor varieties …. The model delivers a static wage Phillips curve linking current wage inflation to current unemployment. For standard … parameterizations, the dynamics of the model are qualitatively and quantitatively similar to those of the new-Keynesian model with wage …
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We consider a New Keynesian model with downward nominal wage rigidity (DNWR) and show that government spending is much …
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We introduce dynamic incentive contracts into a model of unemployment dynamics and present three results. First, wage …-order equivalent in an economy with flexible incentive pay and without bargaining, vis-á-vis an economy with rigid wages. Second, wage …% of wage cyclicality in the data arises from incentives. A standard model without incentives calibrated to weakly …
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We estimate an income process that is consistent with key facts on individual income risk and its variation over the business cycle. In particular, the estimated process generates income fluctuations that display (i) flat and acyclical variance, (ii) volatile and procyclical skewness, (iii) very...
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This paper develops a new algorithm for detecting US recessions in real time. The algorithm constructs millions of recession classifiers by combining unemployment and vacancy data to reduce detection noise. Classifiers are then selected to avoid both false negatives (missed recessions) and false...
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We show that the largest increase in unemployment benefits in U.S. history had large spending impacts and small job-finding impacts. This finding has three implications. First, increased benefits were important for explaining aggregate spending dynamics--but not employment dynamics--during the...
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This paper uses two large datasets built from quarterly labor force surveys to provide a global perspective on labor market downturns. The distribution of the severity and duration of labor market downturns is strongly right skewed. The longest and most severe downturns are associated with...
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