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The holy grail of Keynesian theorists during much of the postwar period has been to fully microfound meaningful wage rigidity (MWR), defined by its capacity to rationally suppress wage recontracting. This paper accomplishes that longstanding goal! MWR is shown to be a necessary condition for the...
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The compelling case offered by Austrians regarding the recent economic downturn has no doubt encouraged many to take a closer look at the broader Austrian perspective. Similarly, the jobless recovery has prompted some soul searching in labor economics. We briefly review the history and...
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questions in labor and macroeconomics such as why employment takes so long to recover following a recession and why “under-employment …
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We propose a monetary model in which the unemployed satisfy the official US definition of unemployment: they are people without jobs who are (i) currently making concrete efforts to find work and (ii) willing and able to work. In addition, our model has the property that people searching for...
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We propose a monetary model in which the unemployed satisfy the official US definition of unemployment: they are people without jobs who are (i) currently making concrete efforts to find work and (ii) willing and able to work. In addition, our model has the property that people searching for...
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The important debate about how economic fluctuations affect employment reallocation in heterogeneous businesses is … for devising labor policies that aim at dampening employment fluctuations. The theoretical literature suggests that job … on the cyclicality of employment in heterogeneous firms in a developing country. Results produced by classifying firms by …
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. Most firms revise downward their expectations for sales, orders, employment, and investment, while prices are expected to …
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. Most firms revise downward their expectations for sales, orders, employment, and investment, while prices are expected to …
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