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its persistence and increase the volatility of vacancies. Hiring subsidies and unemployment benefits have substantial …
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high volatility of most of the key variables, the negative co-variation of unemployment and vacancies, and the behavior of … the worker job finding rate. A key role in this fit is played by the convexity of hiring costs and the stochastic …
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This paper establishes a new fact about the compositional changes in the pool of unemployed over the U.S. business cycle and evaluates a number of theories that can potentially explain it. Using micro-data from the Current Population Survey for the years 1962-2011, it documents that in...
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percent increase in the state-level effective minimum wage reduces vacancies by 2.4 percent in the same quarter, and the … cumulative effect is as large as 4.5 percent a year later. The negative effect on vacancies is more pronounced for occupations …. We argue that our focus on vacancies versus on employment has a distinct advantage of highlighting a mechanism through …
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percent increase in the statelevel effective minimum wage reduces vacancies by 2.4 percent in the same quarter, and the … cumulative effect is as large as 4.5 percent a year later. The negative effect on vacancies is more pronounced for occupations …. We argue that our focus on vacancies versus on employment has a distinct advantage of highlighting a mechanism through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013373856
This paper characterizes efficient labor-market allocations in a labor selection model. The model’s crucial aspect is cross-sectional heterogeneity for new job contacts, which leads to an endogenous selection threshold for new hires. With cross-sectional dispersion calibrated to microeconomic...
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This paper characterizes efficient labor-market allocations in a labor selection model. The model's crucial aspect is cross-sectional heterogeneity for new job contacts, which leads to an endogenous selection threshold for new hires. With cross-sectional dispersion calibrated to microeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345350
. Indeterminacy disappears completely when vacancy posting costs are replaced with hiring costs. …
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non-Ramsey decentralized equilibrium, labor market volatility is inefficient. Keeping fixed the structural parameters, the … Ramsey government achieves efficient labor market volatility; doing so requires labor-income tax volatility that is orders of … order to understand optimal tax volatility. …
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non-Ramsey decentralized equilibrium, labor market volatility is inefficient. Keeping fixed the structural parameters, the … Ramsey government achieves efficient labor market volatility; doing so requires labor-income tax volatility that is orders of … order to understand optimal tax volatility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011887380