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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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U.S. CPS gross flows data indicate that in recessions firms actually increase their hiring rates from the pools of the unemployed and out of the labor force. Why so? The paper provides an explanation by studying the optimal recruiting behavior of the representative firm. This behavior is a...
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Remarks at the Quarterly Regional Economic Press Briefing, New York City.
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the time of hiring and the impact of labor market conditions at the time of hiring on future wages. The price of labor and … based on the behavior of individual wages and turnover. I find that a one percentage point increase in unemployment … individual wages and also noticeably higher than the cyclicality of the wages of newly hired workers. I conclude that the price …
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We show that the inability of a standardly-calibrated stochastic labor search-and-matching model to account for the observed volatility of unemployment and vacancies extends beyond U.S. data to a set of OECD countries. We also argue that using cross-country data is helpful in evaluating the...
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