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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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sluggish. Job creation and job destruction are negatively correlated. And the volatility of unemployment is much larger than in …
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counteract a steep increase in unemployment. We show that short-time work can actually save jobs. However, there is an important …
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-over effects of labor market institutions ; unemployment ; international trade ; search frictions ; heterogeneous firms …We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …. Countries may differ with respect to size, geographical location, and labor market institutions. Contrary to the literature, our …
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This paper provides a model of "social hysteresis", whereby long, deep recessions demotivate workers and thereby lead them to change their work ethic. In switching from a pro-work to an anti-work identity, their incentives to seek and retain work fall and consequently their employment chances...
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We introduce unemployment and endogenous selection of workers into different skill-classes in a trade model with two … sectors and heterogeneous firms. This allows us to study the distributional consequences and the skill-specific unemployment … real wages and unemployment levels in the unskilled labor intensive sector. However, the inequality of workers between …
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