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We build a New Keynesian business-cycle model with rich household heterogeneity. In the model, systematic monetary stabilization policy affects the distribution of income, income risks, and the demand for funds and supply of assets: the demand, because matching frictions render idiosyncratic...
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We build a New Keynesian business-cycle model with rich household heterogeneity. In the model, systematic monetary stabilization policy affects the distribution of income, income risks, and the demand for funds and supply of assets: the demand, because matching frictions render idiosyncratic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012511775
Using a two-agent model comprised of capitalists and workers, this paper examines the importance of imperfect competition in product and labour markets in determining the welfare effects of tax reform. The reform considered consists of eliminating the capital tax alongside a concurrent rise in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010665917
How much did shocks to household credit supply reduce employment in the Great Recession? To answer this question, I … decline in credit supply to households reduced home purchase and mortgage refinance credit by 7 and 20 percent, and employment … by 3 percent. In partial equilibrium, the household credit channel implies employment losses equal to at least 20 percent …
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The average employment rate for the OECD countries was close to 63 percent in the period 2000- 2015 but there is … considerable variation within and between countries. We find that a dynamic model for employment, derived from a multiple equation … the dynamics well and they imply interpretable estimates of the normal employment rate level, conditional on the state of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005508
The average employment rate for the OECD countries was close to 63 percent in the period 2000-2015 but there is … considerable variation within and between countries. We find that a dynamic model for employment, derived from a multiple equation … the dynamics well and they imply interpretable estimates of the normal employment rate level, conditional on the state of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018509
others cycle repeatedly in and out of employment. This paper explores the economic consequences of such heterogeneity. Using …
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others cycle repeatedly in and out of employment. This paper explores the economic consequences of such heterogeneity. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012316968
This paper introduces a new argument into the theoretical literature on labor market effects of changes in working hours and labor force participation. We advance a general equilibrium model in which increased labor supply reduces unskilled unemployment via consumer demand: longer work hours and...
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This study evaluates the impact of agricultural subsidies (CAP) on unemployment and employment outside the agricultural …
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