We reassess the role of vacancies in a Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides style search and matching model. In the absence of … free entry long lived vacancies and endogenous separations give rise to a vacancy depletion channel which we identify via …

We reassess the role of vacancies in a Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides style search and matching model. In the absence of … free entry long lived vacancies and endogenous separations give rise to a vacancy depletion channel which we identify via …

rotation data set for the period 1979:1-2003:4, we find that the volatility of aggregate skilled hours relative to the … volatility of GDP has nearly tripled since 1984. In contrast, the cyclical properties of unskilled hours have remained … to an increase in the relative volatility of skilled hours: (i) a reduction in the degree of capital …

:1-2003:4, we find that the volatility of aggregate skilled hours relative to the volatility of GDP has nearly tripled since 1984 … volatility of skilled hours: (i) a reduction in the degree of capital-skill complementarity, (ii) a reduction in the absolute … volatility of GDP (and unskilled hours), and (iii) an increase in the level of capital equipment relative to skilled labor. We …

. Indeterminacy disappears completely when vacancy posting costs are replaced with hiring costs. …

non-Ramsey decentralized equilibrium, labor market volatility is inefficient. Keeping fixed the structural parameters, the … Ramsey government achieves efficient labor market volatility; doing so requires labor-income tax volatility that is orders of … order to understand optimal tax volatility. …

non-Ramsey decentralized equilibrium, labor market volatility is inefficient. Keeping fixed the structural parameters, the … Ramsey government achieves efficient labor market volatility; doing so requires labor-income tax volatility that is orders of … order to understand optimal tax volatility. …

vanished, (ii) the relative volatility of employment has risen, and (iii) the relative (and absolute) volatility of the real … observed decline in output volatility. …