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This paper shows how uninsurable unemployment risk is crucial to qualitatively and quantitatively match macro responses … to uncertainty shocks. Empirically, uncertainty shocks i) generate deflationary pressure; ii) have considerably negative … jointly attain these results. Uncertainty shocks induce households' precautionary saving and firms' precautionary pricing …
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volatility of vacancies and unemployment. This channel can be relevant if the lack of insurance is large enough so that the … earnings variance and persistence in the unemployment state that result in a large degree of self-insurance …
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the impact of uncertainty shocks on unemployment dynamics. Using a vector autoregression approach, we show that … uncertainty shocks measured by stock market volatility have a significant impact on the U.S. unemployment rate. We then develop a …Recent events suggest that uncertainty changes play a major role in U.S. labor market fluctuations. This study analyzes …
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labor market and examines the implications of joint household decision-making for cyclical fluctuations in the unemployment …, and find that joint household decision-making contributes to the counter-cyclicality of women’s unemployment rate, but not …
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In this paper, I show that the decline in household consumption during unemployment spells depends on both liquid and … illiquid asset positions. I also provide evidence that unemployment spells predict the withdrawal of illiquid assets …, particularly when households have few liquid assets. Motivated by these findings, I embed endogenous unemployment risk in a two …
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We extend the canonical income process with persistent and transitory risk to shock distributions with left-skewness and excess kurtosis, to which we refer as higher-order risk. We estimate our extended income process by GMM for household data from the United States. We find countercyclical...
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We investigate cyclicality of variance and skewness of household labor income risk using PSID data. There are five main findings. First, we find that head's labor income exhibits countercyclical variance and procyclical skewness. Second, the cyclicality of hourly wages is muted, suggesting that...
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We investigate cyclicality of variance and skewness of household labor income risk using PSID data. There are five main findings. First, we find that head's labor income exhibits countercyclical variance and procyclical skewness. Second, the cyclicality of hourly wages is muted, suggesting that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860550
We extend the canonical income process with persistent and transitory risk to shock distributions with left-skewness and excess kurtosis, to which we refer as higherorder risk. We estimate our extended income process by GMM for household data from the United States. We find countercyclical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012182809