individuals' sleep time exhibits both variability and volatility characterized by stationary autoregressive conditional … young children at home. Volatility is greater among parents with young children, slightly greater among men than women, but … independent of other demographics. A theory of economic incentives to minimize the dispersion of sleep predicts that higher …

Bubbles are recurrent events, which contribute to both macroeconomic and employment volatility. We introduce stochastic …

Financial frictions are known to raise the volatility of economies to shocks (e.g. Bernanke andGertler 1989). We follow … this line of research to the labor literature concerned by the volatility of labor market outcomes to productivity shocks … are a good candidate to solve the volatility puzzle and rejoin Pissarides (2009) in arguing that hiring costs must be …

theory. While labor market institutions have a large effect on output volatility, they do not seem to have much of an effect …This paper analyzes the effects of different labor market institutions on inflation and output volatility. The eurozone … could account for volatility differences across member states, but labor market characteristics have remained very diverse …

volatility of both inflation and unemployment differentials. Finally, we show that it is important to take into account the …

This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility … vacancies) divided by the volatility of labor productivity is roughly twice as large as in the United States. We derive and …

achieve similar volatility than fully deregulated labor markets. Flexibility at the margin produces a gap in separation costs … de labor market volatility. This increased volatility is partially reverted when limitations in the duration and number … explain the similar volatility observed in many regulated OECD labor markets with flexibility at the margin vis-à-vis the …