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Prior to 2020, the Great Recession was the most important macroeconomic shock to the United States economy in generations. Millions lost jobs and homes. At its peak, one in ten workers who wanted a job could not find one. On an annual basis, the economy contracted by more than it had since the...
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It is well-known that real wages are procyclical conditional on a monetary policy shock. This paper challenges this … conventional view by using a quantitative heterogeneous-agent New Keynesian economy with sticky wages. In the model with benchmark … wages (average hourly earnings) increase. This implies that true real wages may be countercyclical conditional on a monetary …
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In this paper, we provide compelling evidence that cyclical factors account for the bulk of thepost-2007 decline in the U.S. labor force participation rate. We then proceed to formulate astylized New Keynesian model in which labor force participation is essentially acyclical during“normal...
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Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing debate. One view suggests there are fundamental changes in the labor market that imply a long-term higher rate of unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy...
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We use high-frequency administrative data from Germany to study the effects of monetary policy on income and employment … shocks. This unequal incidence is driven by differences in the response of employment risk across the distribution: job loss …
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