Michaillat, Pascal
(2010)
Do matching frictions explain unemployment?: not in bad times.
CEP discussion papers,
CEPDP1024.
London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
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Abstract
This paper models unemployment as the result of matching frictions and job rationing. Job rationing is a shortage of jobs arising naturally in an economic equilibrium from the combination of some wage rigidity and diminishing marginal returns to labor. During 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, recruiting is easy and inexpensive, so matching frictions do not matter much. In a calibrated model, cyclical fluctuations in the composition of unemployment are quantitatively large.
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Monograph
(Discussion Paper)
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| Official URL: |
http://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/publications/abstract.as... |
| Additional Information: |
© 2009 P. Michaillat |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
unemployment, matching frictions, job rationing |
| Library of Congress subject classification: |
H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor |
| Journal of Economic Literature Classification System: |
E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E2 - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment > E24 - Macroeconomics: Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution (includes wage indexation)
E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E3 - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles > E32 - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J6 - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies > J64 - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search |
| Sets: |
Departments > Economics
Collections > Economists Online
Research centres and groups > Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) |
| Rights: |
http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/rights/LSERO.htm |
| Identification Number: |
CEPDP1024 |
| URL: |
http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/35595/ |
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