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historical negative correlation between the unemployment rate and the employer-to-employer (EE) transition rate up to the Great … rate increased commensurately with the decline in unemployment. We then decompose the channels through which a change in EE …
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Since the advent of Heterogeneous Agent New Keynesian (HANK) models, countercyclical unemployment risk has been deemed … an important amplification mechanism for business cycles shocks. Yet, the aggregate effects of such "unemployment fears … model. While unemployment fears can exert noticeable aggregate effects, we find their magnitude to depend importantly on the …
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We outline the case for credit frictions and a demand side aspect to labor market fluctuations. To illustrate the above proposition, we present a simple framework to analyze the joint dependence between a labor search problem in the labor market and a costly state verification problem in the...
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unemployment dynamics. The optimal monetary policy prescribes a strong positive response to EE fluctuations, implying that central … banks should distinguish between recovery episodes with similar unemployment but different EE dynamics. …
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This paper analyses how labour market heterogeneity affects unemployment, productivity and business cycle dynamics that … skilled workers increases the natural rate of unemployment and reduces total factor productivity with long- run effects on the … Beveridge curves. Skill-specific labour market heterogeneity leads to a attening of the Phillips curve as wages and unemployment …
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build a New Keynesian model with incomplete asset markets, asymmetric search and matching (SAM) frictions across skilled and … shock leads to larger wage increases for high-skilled workers than for low-skilled workers, due to the smaller matching …
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, because matching frictions render idiosyncratic labor-market risk endogenous; the supply, because markups, adjustment costs …, instead, favors unemployment-centric policy. One- and two-agent alternatives can show unanimous disapproval of inflation …
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facing exogenous differences in the job finding and separation rates. We use our setting to study the racial unemployment gap … two groups both in the level and volatility of unemployment. We show that the racial unemployment gap is counter … unemployment is above average the gap increases by 0.6pp more than when aggregate unemployment is below average. In terms of policy …
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in their unemployment rate and not a decline in labour force participation rate. Policymakers should take account of …
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between monetary policy, employment, and unemployment. According to the obtained estimates monetary policy shocks invoked … lagged, hump‑shaped reactions of output, employment and unemployment in each of the analysed countries. …
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