downward rigidity, and magnifying the response of unemployment to negative shocks. We also consider layoffs and show that for a …

Standard macroeconomic models underpredict the volatility of unemployment fluctuations. A common solution is to assume … jobs. This form of wage rigidity does not affect job creation and thus cannot explain the unemployment volatility puzzle …

Standard macroeconomic models underpredict the volatility of unemployment fluctuations. A common solution is to assume … jobs. This form of wage rigidity does not affect job creation and thus cannot explain the unemployment volatility puzzle …

cycle fluctuations in employment and unemployment. They argue that it is likely that wages are not adjusted as regularly as …

RBC models with search unemployment and wage renegotiation generate too much wage volatility and too stable … unemployment rate. Shimer (2004) shows that it is possible to reproduce a volatility of unemployment similar to that observed in … unemployment …

labor more important for unemployment. I differentiate jobs based on their hiring pool and estimate their wage cyclicality …. The key finding is that wages in jobs hiring from unemployment are half as cyclical as wages in other jobs, for both … incumbent workers and new hires. To measure the effects of this on unemployment volatility, I develop a labor search model with …

unemployment. I estimate a version of the MP model with wage rigidity and permanent shocks to match productivity. The model … generates sufficient volatility in unemployment, vacancies, job-finding and job-separation despite relatively low worker outside … estimation procedure finds the best fitting model, the model predicts too little variance in unemployment and too much variance …