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What explains the current low rate of employment in the US? While there has been substantial debate over this question in recent years, we believe that considerable added insight can be derived by focusing on changes in the labor market at the turn of the century. In particular, we argue that in...
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We consider a matching model of employment with wages that are flexible for new hires, but sticky within matches. We depart from standard treatments of sticky wages by allowing effort to respond to the wage being too high or low. Shimer (2004) and others have illustrated that employment in the...
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Four years after the beginning of the Great Recession, the labor market remains historically weak. Many observers have concluded that "structural" impediments to recovery bear some of the blame. This paper reviews such structural explanations. I find that there is little evidence supporting...
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) Downward and upward occupational switching increased by 17% and 4%, respectively. (2) Transitions to unemployment increased by …
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Job differentiation gives employers market power, allowing them to pay workers less than their marginal productivity. We estimate a differentiated jobs model using application data from Careerbuilder.com. We find direct evidence of substantial job differentiation. Without the use of instruments...
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Matching efficiency is the productivity of the process for matching jobseekers to available jobs. Job-finding is the output; vacant jobs and active jobseekers are the inputs. Measurement of matching efficiency follows the same principles as measuring an index of productivity of production. We...
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Does the market allocate the right workers to the right jobs? Since observable (to economists) variables account for only a small fraction of the wage variance in the data, to answer this question it is essential to study assortative matching between employers and employees based on their...
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This paper develops a random-matching model of a frictional labor market with firm and worker dynamics. Multi-worker firms choose whether to shrink or expand their employment in response to shocks to their decreasing returns to scale technology. Growing entails posting costly vacancies, which...
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market clears at each instant but some labor markets have more workers than jobs, hence unemployment, and some have more jobs … comovement of unemployment, job vacancies, and the rate at which unemployed workers find jobs over the business cycle. It can …-to-employer transitions, and it helps explain the cyclical volatility of vacancies and unemployment …
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rate in particular contain implicit theories of unemployment. In some cases, the theory is explicit. When the nominal rate … employment, and higher unemployment. Quite separately, the Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides model is a widely accepted and well …-developed account of turnover, wage determination, and unemployment. The DMP model is a clashing theory of unemployment, in the sense …
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