Unemployment dynamics with international capital mobility

Azariadis, Costas and Pissarides, Christopher ORCID: 0000-0002-0695-058X (2007) Unemployment dynamics with international capital mobility. European Economic Review, 51 (1). pp. 27-48. ISSN 0014-2921

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Abstract

We study the response of domestic unemployment rates to shocks in total factor productivity for economies with high capital mobility and low labour mobility. We show that rapid capital movements across national borders, like those experienced by developed nations in the last twenty years, substantially amplify the impact on the domestic unemployment rate of domestic fluctuations in total factor productivity relative to what would have happened in a closed economy, shorten the duration of the responses and raise the variability of employment. Capital flows increase the riskiness of labour income and reduce the riskiness of capital income.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://www.elsevier.com/locate/eer/
Additional Information:	© 2007 Elsevier
Divisions:	Centre for Economic Performance Economics
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HF Commerce H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
JEL classification:	J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J6 - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies > J64 - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search 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 F - International Economics > F2 - International Factor Movements and International Business > F21 - International Investment; Long-Term Capital Movements
Date Deposited:	27 Jun 2007
Last Modified:	11 Dec 2024 23:09
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/2476

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