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disaggregate unemployment and in the cross-sectional differences across individuals of the duration of unemployment spells. The …-space model of Ahn and Hamilton (2016). I found that the contribution of each factor to the dynamics of disaggregate unemployment …
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unemployment, most research has focused on analyzing the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) policies on reemployment outcomes … benefit duration (PBD) within the German UI system, we find that longer PBD leads to longer actual unemployment duration for … for those individuals becoming re-employed. With increasing unemployment benefit duration, the founders’ outcomes in terms …
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Many firms adjust employment in a "lumpy" manner -- infrequently and in large bursts. In this paper, I show that lumpy adjustments can arise from concerns about the incentives of remaining workers. Specifically, I develop a model in which a firm's productivity depends on its workers' effort and...
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Fluctuations in upside risks to unemployment over the medium term are examined using quantile regressions. U ….S. experience reveals an elevated risk of large increases in unemployment when inflation or credit growth is high and when the … unemployment rate is low. Inflation was a significant contributor to unemployment risk in the 1970s and early 1980s, and …
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We introduce two types of effort into an otherwise standard labor search model to examine indeterminacy and sunspot equilibria. Variable labor effort gives rise to increasing returns to hours in production. This makes workers more valuable and contributes to self-fulfilling profit expectations,...
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large, long-term photovoltaic invest scheme in Germany. Comparing counties with high and low unemployment both over time and …
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I calculate unemployment multipliers of fiscal consolidation policies in a standard, closed-economy New Keynesian … percentage of family firms in the labor force. I find that fiscal austerity raises unemployment. Both at peak and cumulatively …, unemployment reacts least when the budget is consolidated by increasing the rate of value-added tax. At peak, the highest increase …
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This paper derives alternative measures of the short-run NAIRU (SRN) for the UK, the rate for unemployment at which … a beneficial impact on RPIX inflation over the last few years. We show that deviations of unemployment from the short …
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After an expansionary monetary policy shock employment increases and unemployment falls. In standard New Keynesian … models the fall in aggregate unemployment does not affect employed workers at all. However, Lüchinger, Meier and Stutzer … (2010) found that the risk of unemployment negatively affects utility of employed workers: An increases in aggregate …
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As skills of labor-market entrants are usually not directly observed by employers, individuals acquire skill signals. To study which signals are valued by employers, we simultaneously and independently randomize a broad range of skill signals on pairs of resumes of fictitious applicants among...
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