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The unemployed in the United States appear to allocate time to job search activities regardless of the stance of the economy. Drawing on the American Time Use Survey between 2003 and 2014, I document that the unemployed increase their search intensity only slightly if at all during recessions....
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We construct a theoretical model of labor markets with human capital accumulation to understand and quantify the earnings losses for young workers generated by unemployment: unemployment represents time forgone in terms of human capital accumulation, which adversely affects long-term income...
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past inflation during the Great Inflation but not during the Great Moderation. However, most DSGE models assume fixed … monetary policy. We find that workers index their wages to past inflation when technology and permanent inflation-target shocks … drive output fluctuations; when aggregate demand shocks do, workers index to trend-inflation. In addition, workers' choices …
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We use a novel data set on firm vacancies and job seekers from a Mexican government job placement service to analyze whether changes in matching frictions can explain the large and persistent increase in Mexican unemployment after the 2008 global financial crisis. We find evidence of a...
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We document the evolution of labor markets of five Latin American countries during the COVID-19 pandemic, with emphasis on informal employment. We show, for most countries, a slump in aggregate employment, mirrored by a fall in labor participation, and a decline in the informality rate. The...
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The non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU) is not directly observable and the presence of informal …
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We analyze the joint impact of employment protection and informality on macroeconomic volatility and the propagation of shocks in emerging economies. For this, we propose a small open economy business cycle model with frictional labor markets, labor regulation, and an informal sector, modeled as...
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generally find that deflation terms contributes negatively to such a premium and inflation positively. The magnitudes of the … coefficients associated with deflation tend to be greater, compared to those associated with inflation. This suggests that …
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