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the Beveridge curve in Austria. We find empirical evidence to confirm that the increase in the unemployment rate in …
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Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …
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externalities and equilibrium unemployment. Our model incorporates endogenous labor force participation and two margins of … consumption and output; a marginal increase in the unemployment and labor force participation rates; and an expansion in the … accompanied by gradual gains in output and consumption and a negligible expansion in unemployment. Critically, abstracting from …
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unemployment and maximum employment approaches; and the unfilled vacancies perspective. Furthermore, we provide and discuss …
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We study the distributional consequences of COVID-19 by using a stock-flow consistent agent-based model that captures some of the aspects of pandemic-related lockdowns. In particular, the model distinguishes between "essential" and "non-essential" industries, between jobs that can be done from...
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firms are more cyclically sensitive to unemployment. Besides, the VAR impulse response analysis suggests that workers move …
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The Hodrick-Prescott filter is a popular tool in macroeconomics for decomposing a time series into a smooth trend and a business cycle component. The last few years have witnessed global events, such as the Global Financial Crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the war in Ukraine, that have had...
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This paper studies the effect of mandated severance pay in a matching model featuring wage rigidity for ongoing, but not new, matches. Mandated severance pay matters only if binding real wage rigidities imply inefficient separation under employment at will. In such a case, large enough severance...
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This paper is a quantitative, equilibrium study of the insurance role of severance pay when workers face displacement risk and markets are incomplete. A key feature of our model is that, in line with an established empirical literature, job displacement entails a persistent fall in earnings upon...
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The Great Recession, which was preceded by the financial crisis, resulted in higher unemployment and inequality. We …, tighter credit leads to lower output, lower number of vacancies, and higher directed-search unemployment. Where workers are …
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