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This paper documents state dependence in labor market fluctuations. Using aThreshold Vector Autoregression model (TVAR), we establish that the unemployment rate, the job separation rate, and the job finding rate exhibit a larger response to productivity shocks during periods with low aggregate...
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The business cycle is alive and well, and real variables respond to it more or less as they always did. Witness the Great Recession. In ation, in contrast, has gone quiescent. This paper studies the sources of this disconnect using VARs and an estimated DSGE model. It finds that the disconnect...
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cycle model. In particular, we analyze the effect of a monetary policy shock and investigate how labor market frictions … persistent movements of aggregate inflation. Moreover, the impact of a monetary policy shock on unemployment and inflation …
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Recent empirical evidence establishes that a positive technology shock leads to a decline in labor inputs. Can a … response of employment to a technology shock. We find that labor market frictions account for the fall in labor inputs. …
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Recent empirical evidence suggests that a positive technology shock leads to a decline in labour inputs. However, the … of employment to a technology shock. The results of the estimation support the hypothesis that labour market frictions … are the factor responsible for the negative response of employment. -- Technology shocks ; employment ; labour market …
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Recent empirical evidence suggests that a positive technology shock leads to a decline in labor inputs. However, the … employment to a technology shock. The results of the estimation support the hypothesis that labor market frictions are …
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Recent empirical evidence suggests that a positive technology shock leads to a decline in labour inputs. However, the … of employment to a technology shock. The results of the estimation support the hypothesis that labour market frictions …
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In this paper, we show that in order to obtain a sound identification of Euro Area monetary policy shocks, one needs to deal with the interaction of the European Central Bank and the US Federal Reserve. In other words, a proper identification of monetary policy shocks for an open economy like...
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Using 136 United States macroeconomic indicators from 1973 to 2017, and a factor augmented vector autoregression (FAVAR) framework with sign restrictions, we investigate the effects of three structural macroeconomic shocks - monetary, demand, and supply - on the labour market outcomes of black...
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