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rate and the unemployment rate? In the model, fluctuations are prominently driven by productivity shocks which are commonly … replicates the conditional volatility of job finding and unemployment, so that the Shimer critique does not apply. Instead the … shocks lead to a fall in job finding and an increase in unemployment thereby opposing the dynamics in the standard model …
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This paper characterizes long-run and short-run optimal fiscal policy in the labor selection framework. In a calibrated non-Ramsey decentralized equilibrium, labor market volatility is inefficient. Keeping fixed the structural parameters, the Ramsey government achieves efficient labor market...
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unemployment and output fluctuations. The central question is whether the rule based component (i.e., the existence of the … our baseline scenario the rule based component stabilizes unemployment fluctuations by 15% and output fluctuations by 7 … significant effect on unemployment. These effects are based on a structural VAR estimation which is identified using the output …
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labor markets. In a calibrated version of the model, efficient fluctuations feature highly volatile unemployment and job …
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Over the past two decades, technological progress in the United States has been biased towards skilled labor. What does this imply for business cycles? We construct a quarterly skill premium from the CPS and use it to identify skill-biased technology shocks in a VAR with long-run restrictions....
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driver of the unusually small increase in German unemployment in the Great Recession. One possible explanation is that firms …
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We develop a utility based model of fluctuations, with nominal rigidities, and unemployment. In doing so, we combine …-Mortensen-Pissarides model, with its focus on labor market frictions and unemployment. In developing this model, we proceed in two steps. We … effect on unemployment in the constrained e?cient allocation. We then focus on the implications of alternative real wage …
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