Replication data for: Do Matching Frictions Explain Unemployment? Not in Bad Times
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Project Citation:
Michaillat, Pascal. Replication data for: Do Matching Frictions Explain Unemployment? Not in Bad Times. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2012. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/E112537V1
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Summary:
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This paper proposes a search-and-matching model of unemployment in which jobs are rationed: the labor market does not clear in the absence of matching frictions. This job shortage arises in an economic equilibrium from the combination of some wage rigidity
and diminishing marginal returns to labor. In recessions, job rationing is acute, driving the rise in unemployment, whereas matching frictions contribute little to unemployment. Intuitively in recessions, jobs are lacking, the labor market is slack, and recruiting is easy
and inexpensive, so matching frictions do not matter much. In a calibrated model, cyclical fluctuations in the composition of unemployment are large.
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JEL Classification:
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E24 Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
E32 Business Fluctuations; Cycles
J41 Labor Contracts
J64 Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
E24 Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
E32 Business Fluctuations; Cycles
J41 Labor Contracts
J64 Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
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