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that this model can reproduce the observed cyclical patterns of wages and the skill-premium. The feature of capital …
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Traditional models of the labor market typically assume that wages are set by the market, not the firm. However, over … suggest that a monopsonistic model, where individual firms and not the market set wages, may be more appropriate. This model … attributes more wage-setting power to firms, particularly during economic downturns, which helps explain why wages decrease …
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stock prices even though TFP does not change significantly for more than 2 years. A labor search model in which wages are …-finding rates. The proposed wage rule is consistent with empirical responses of wages to both anticipated and unanticipated …
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wages, which does not impose any structure between real wages and observed cyclical indicators. In particular, we employ a … Bayesian dynamic factor model and longitudinal microdata to estimate common latent factors driving real wages. We find that the … comovement of real wages is related to a common factor that exhibits a mild correlation with the national unemployment rate. Our …
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Despite notable improvements in the labour market since 2013, wage growth in the euro area was subdued and substantially overpredicted in 2013-17. This paper summarises the findings of an ESCB expert group on the reasons for low wage growth and provides comparable analyses on wage developments...
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How do wages respond to financial recessions? Based on a dynamic macroeconomic model with frictions in the labor and … and explore their effect on wages. First, the financial labor wedge reduces wages. Second, financial constraints may … interact with aggregate labor market conditions in various ways putting upward or downward pressure on wages. We test partial …
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The study proposes a multivariate unobserved components model in order to examine relationships at business cycle frequencies among macroeconomic variables. The series are decomposed into non-stationary trends, stationary cycles, and an irregular component. The co-movements among the particular...
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The economic literature started to recognize the heterogeneity characterizing the nature of different technologies, introducing the concept of General Purpose Technologies. In this paper, we offer a new view of General Purpose Technologies, building on the historical as well as on the recent...
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Like other macroeconomic variables, residential investment has become much less volatile since the mid-1980s (recent experience notwithstanding.) This paper explores the role of structural change in this decline. Since the the early 1980s there have been many changes in the underlying structure...
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This paper develops a Walrasian equilibrium theory of establishment level dynamics and matching frictions and uses it to evaluate the effects of congestion externalities in the matching process and determine the government interventions that are needed to implement a Pareto optimal allocation....
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