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Why is unemployment higher for young individuals than for the old? Why are business cycle fluctuations in employment more pronounced for the young than for the old? We address these questions in the context of a search-and-matching model of the labor market that features learning about...
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Why is unemployment higher for younger individuals? We address this question in a frictional model of the labor market that features learning about occupational fit. In order to learn the occupation in which they are most productive, workers sample occupations over their careers. Because young...
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accounts for a significant part of this moderation.
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In this paper I quantify the value of conscription as a state-contingent capital levy in the face of stochastic war-and-peace shocks. I construct a model in which the Ramsey planner is subject to a restricted set of fiscal instruments, characterize optimal policy and the role of conscription,...
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We present a tractable model of state-dependent pricing and study the incentive for firms to adjust their price in response to shocks. We find a distinct asymmetry in this response. Positive shocks generate greater price flexibility (and smaller output effects) than negative shocks of the same...
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We present a tractable, dynamic general equilibrium model of state-dependent pricing and study the response of output and prices to monetary policy shocks. We find important nonlinearities in these responses. For empirically relevant shocks, this generates substantially different predictions...
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The search‐and‐matching model of the labor market fails to match two important business cycle facts: (i) a high volatility of unemployment relative to labor productivity, and (ii) a mild correlation between these two variables. We address these shortcomings by focusing on technological...
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The search-and-matching model of the labor market fails to match two important business cycle facts: (i) a high volatility of unemployment relative to labor productivity, and (ii) a mild correlation between these two variables. We address these shortcomings by focusing on technological...
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Job polarization refers to the recent shrinking concentration of employment in occupations in the middle of the skill distribution. Jobless recoveries refers to the slow rebound in aggregate employment following recent recessions, despite recoveries in aggregate output. We show how these two...
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