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We model worker heterogeneity in the rents from being employed in a Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides model of matching and unemployment. We show that heterogeneity, reflecting differences in match quality and worker assets, reduces the extent of fluctuations in separations and unemployment. We find...
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This paper suggests that skill accumulation through past work experience, or "learning-by-doing", can provide an important propagation mechanism for initial shocks, as the current labor supply affects future productivity. Our econometric analysis uses a Bayesian approach to combine micro-level...
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We examine the impact of wage stickiness when employment has an effort as well as hours dimension. Despite wages being predetermined, the labor market clears through the effort margin. Consequently, welfare costs of wage stickiness are potentially much, much smaller
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The standard equilibrium models of business cycles face a puzzling fact that total hours vary greatly over the business cycle without much variation in aggregate wages. The model augments the standard RBC model to include Lucas span of control. Distinction between market and non-market and...
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Two investment anomalies in aggregate home-production models are investigated: excess volatility and comovement. Adjustment cost in capital accumulation reduces both volatility and the negative correlation in investments on capital goods in the market and at home. Investments comove to the...
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