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The labor search and matching model plays a growing role in macroeconomic analysis. This paper provides a critical …
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Recently, a number of authors have argued that the standard search model cannot generate the observed business-cycle-frequency fluctuations in unemployment and job vacancies, given shocks of a plausible magnitude. We use data on the cost of vacancy creation and cyclicality of wages to identify...
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We extend the standard textbook search and matching model by introducing deep habits in consumption. The cyclical … cycles ; labour market fluctuations ; search and matching ; wage bargaining …
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This paper is concerned with the business cycle dynamics in search-and-matching models of the labor market when agents …
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We extend the standard textbook search and matching model by introducing deep habits in consumption. The cyclical …
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Using a unique data set and a novel identification strategy, we estimate the effect of minimum wage increases on job vacancy postings. Utilizing occupation-specific county- level vacancy data from the Conference Board's Help Wanted Online for 2005-2018, we find that state-level minimum wage...
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Using a unique data set and a novel identification strategy, we estimate the effect of minimum wage increases on job vacancy postings. Utilizing occupation-specific countylevel vacancy data from the Conference Board's Help Wanted Online for 2005-2018, we find that state-level minimum wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013192234
The labor search and matching model plays a growing role in macroeconomic analysis. This paper provides a critical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317120
The purpose of this chapter is twofold. First, it reviews the model of search and matching equilibrium and derives the … to the explanation of differences in unemployment rates in industrialized countries. The search and matching model is … built on the assumptions of a time-consuming matching technology that determines the rate of job creation given the …
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Shimer (2005a) argues that the Mortensen-Pissarides equilibrium search model of unemployment explains only about 10% of the response in the job-finding rate to an aggregate productivity shock. Some of the recent papers inspired by his critique are reviewed and commented on here. Specifically, we...
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