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Analysis in terms of the two-sector open economy shows that in bringing the market economy to East Germany, West Germany seems to have disregarded important fundamentals. Premature formation of a currency union led to a substantial real appreciation of the East German currency. Premature...
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. -- Unemployment ; labor market search ; job flows ; labor share ; inflation ; productivity shocks ; monetary shocks …
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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 addresses the question of why prolonged regional unemployment differentials tend to persist even after their … proximate causes have been reversed (e.g., after wages in the highunemployment regions have fallen relative to those in the low-unemployment …
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We document three changes in postwar US macroeconomic dynamics: (i) the procyclicality of labor productivity has vanished, (ii) the relative volatility of employment has risen, and (iii) the relative (and absolute) volatility of the real wage has risen. We propose an explanation for all three...
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stochastic volatility model of sectoral employment growth. Reallocative shocks have no effect on the natural rate of unemployment … the rise in trend unemployment in Germany in the 1980s or for a possible rise in trend unemployment in the United States … following the Great Recession. -- Sectoral shifts ; reallocation ; natural rate ; unemployment ; turbulence ; stochastic …
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measure construction and technology busts) have little effect on the natural rate of unemployment or on long run productivity … of unemployment and can count for a 0.5% rise in cyclical unemployment from 2007 through the end of 2009 and 0.3% through … the beginning of 2011. -- Mismatch ; sectoral shifts ; reallocation ; natural rate ; unemployment ; Great Recession …
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these two features combined generate an equilibrium comovement between matches on the one hand and unemployment and …
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This paper outlines a simple regression-based method to decompose the variance of an aggregate time series into the variance of its components, which is then applied to measure the relative contributions of productivity, hours per worker, and employment to cyclical output growth across a panel...
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This paper addresses the question of why prolonged regional unemployment differentials tend to persist even after their … proximate causes have been reversed (e.g., after wages in the highunemployment regions have fallen relative to those in the low-unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003414301