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unemployment, very low volatility of labour market tightness, and for a positively sloped Beveridge curve. These implications are …
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Theoretical predictions of the impact of TFP growth on unemployment are ambiguous, and depend on the extent to which … creative destruction effects by estimating the impact of TFP growth on unemployment in a panel of industrial countries. We find …-state dynamics of unemployment. Capitalization effects explain some of the estimated impact but a part remains unexplained. …
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. The Beveridge curve depicts the steady state of the model, whereby inflows into unemployment are equal to the outflows …
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and by the need to reallocate workers across productive activities. The duration of unemployment and jobs and wage … policies on wages and unemployment. …
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This paper starts from the observation that despite their very high levels of unemployment, major European countries … have devoted few resources to reducing it. This suggests that there is little political concern about high unemployment. I …
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We present a static model of aggregate demand and unemployment. The economy has a nonproduced good, a produced good … prices as parameters. We obtain the following results: (1) unemployment and unsold production prevail in equilibrium; (2 … and sales are positively correlated under aggregate demand shocks but negatively correlated under aggregate supply shocks …
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We argue that US welfare would rise if unemployment insurance were increased for younger and decreased for older … workers. This is because the young tend to lack the means to smooth consumption during unemployment and want jobs to … accumulate high-return human capital. So unemployment insurance is most valuable to them, while moral hazard is mild. By …
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distribution of firm characteristics, sorting patterns between firms and workers, and unemployment rates that can help explaining …
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This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are heterogeneous variations in the characteristics of workers and jobs, and firms face adjustment costs in responding to these variations. Matches and separations are described...
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workers, that this presumption is in general misplaced: the impact of severance payments on unemployment is qualitatively … unemployment, depending on the union’s coverage of outsiders’ contracts. This prediction finds empirical support in a panel dataset …
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