The authors study the employment and distributional effects of regulating (reducing) working time in a general equilibrium model with search-matching frictions.

Recent quantitative dynamic general equilibrium models have cast serious doubts on the explanatory power of staggered wage/price setting in accounting for both output and inflation persistence. The authors enlarge a dynamic general equilibrium model with staggered wages by incorporating...

There is a wide literature on the dynamic adjustment of employment and its relationship with the business cycle. Our aim is to propose a statistical model that offers a congruent representation of post-war US employment and output data. We use a cointegrated vector autoregressive...